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There are classes of bug that are easy to write in C that are impossible to express in Rust.

• davemp 7mo ago
  let foo = [1, 2, 3]; unsafe { *foo.get_unchecked_mut(4) = 5; } Not sure why Rust evangelists always seem to ignore that unsafe exists.
  • dendix 7mo ago
    Hmmm... where could the oob access possibly be I can't tell
    • davemp 7mo ago
      Easy to spot in a contrived example is not: > impossible to express in Rust I’m not going to argue with Rust folks who misrepresent the language.
  • vmg12 7mo ago
    You can prevent unsafe from being used in a repo with linter rules.