Comment by boxed
5 days ago
From what I understand, rust "unsafe" is actually pretty damn safe compared to an actually memory unsafe language.
5 days ago
From what I understand, rust "unsafe" is actually pretty damn safe compared to an actually memory unsafe language.
Not really. In fact unsafe Rust is widely considered to be significantly harder to get right than C or Zig.
E.g. see https://chadaustin.me/2024/10/intrusive-linked-list-in-rust/ or https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/1/30/unsafe-rust/
The saving grace is that in idiomatic Rust code you have very little unsafe code - usually none. But yeah there's no way I would trust AI to get unsafe Rust right.
It's unsafe