Agreed 100%. I don't think memory maps will ever go away as the "API" between hardware and software -- the "alternatives" always seem to involve staggering comp

Agreed 100%. I don't think memory maps will ever go away as the "API" between hardware and software -- the "alternatives" always seem to involve staggering complexity or a violent neutering on either the SW or the HW side (always the opposite of the person doing the talking, of course) -- but I do think that it's profitable to contain that interface beneath application code, preferably with a language-enforced barrier. I'm cautiously optimistic about Rust's "unsafe" as well. I'm just not cautiously optimistic about python :-)