Fantastic exchange from DConf

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 21:01:40 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 10:10:41 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>> b) If you want to do things that C allows you to do, then Rust 
>> is no more safer than C.
>
> That's the entire bloody point isn't it? Maybe you shouldn't be 
> doing a lot of the things that C allows you to do.

Like building a graph?

Sure, Rust is perfect if you can model your world like a tree, 
but that is usually not what you want if you are looking for 
performance.

You could replace pointers with integer-ids, but that is just 
emulating pointers with a construct that may be harder to check 
for in an automated fashion. So that is not a good solution 
either.