C and memory safety comments by me

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 19 06:45:04 PDT 2017


On 5/19/17 9:35 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote:

> They do however say that the actual knowledge about Rust in the D
> community seems to be rather small, compared to the amount of criticism
> against it. And TBQH I have to agree. To criticize, you should at least
> have a basic understanding of it.

The comments about Andrei saying Rust can't call into C or have C call 
back are quite harsh. Looking at Rust's ability to call C API, it seems 
they have a point -- it appears to be just like D in that you just 
declare an extern C function and can call it.

Disclaimer: have never used Rust.

-Steve


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