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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Eww Rust! I hate memory safe languages, I love torturing myself with C

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You can wrap everything in unsafe and keep living dangerously!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

unsafe doesn't deactivate memory safety. It only allows you to then create raw pointers and whatnot, which you could use to circumvent memory safety, but all the normal language constructs still do enforce it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I know, but it does let you sled off a cliff if you choose to.

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