Talk on what a systems programming language needs to replace C

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 13:23 +0300, drug via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
> Many people don't agree to you because very often low-level Rust code 
> uses unsafe block very much. This definitely isn't as good as you say.
> 
[…]

The safe/unsafe modes are the failing of Rust, even though it is necessary. In
order to do safe "systems programming", there has to be a very well designed
and test unsafe layer.

This is also true of applications programming using C linkage libraries, but
in most cases the needed unsafe wrappers can be generated automatically and
they work very well.

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Russel.
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