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Rust needs unsafe to be Rust. It's reasonable to expect (safe) Rust to become more expressive over time so that more things can be written in safe Rust (or writ
by nickm12 9y ago
Rust needs unsafe to be Rust. It's reasonable to expect (safe) Rust to become more expressive over time so that more things can be written in safe Rust (or written more conveniently) but expecting the escape hatch to go away entirely is misguided. It is as unlikely as C++ or C trying to do away with inline assembly.
- pjmlp 9y agoMicrosoft no longer supports inline assembly on the 64bit compilers, only intrisics. I also imagine that it isn't allowed when using Bitcode deployment on iDevices.