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One metric I thought might be interesting with respect to the Rust rewrite is the number of "unsafe" occurrences in the code. I was optimistic those would be g
by simonw 3mo ago
One metric I thought might be interesting with respect to the Rust rewrite is the number of "unsafe" occurrences in the code.
I was optimistic those would be going down over time but it looks like they've stayed pretty constant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966569#48967630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966569#48967630
- pohl 3mo agoDoes that data exclude FFI wrappers, which necessarily must be unsafe? If not, don’t put much stock in it.
- simonw 3mo agoNo, it's a raw count. I get that there's a baseline of unsafe that's necessary, but I was under the impression that some of those unsafes were in places where they could be replaced by more idiomatic Rust at a later date.
- tomlockwood 3mo agoI don't think that's true. I think a fair chunk of them are places where Bun is handed a pointer by WebKit or something similar. I believe they write about this a little.
- insanitybit 3mo agoI think there's a reasonable expectation that unsafe could still be reduced by having shared, safer abstractions - that would lead to fewer `unsafe` results because the `unsafe` would be contained. I'm surprised that this isn't a higher priority target for them.