Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said.

Python is memory safe? Can’t you access/address memory with C bindings?

  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    I agree for the most part, but writing data structures with shared mutable state can be a total pain in Rust.

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
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      6 months ago

      How so? That’s like, the thing that makes rust awesome to write.

      • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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        6 months ago

        It’s hard to get those kinds of data structures through the borrow checker.

        Try writing a doubly linked list.

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
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          6 months ago

          It’s because it’s hard to make them correct. It’s not any harder to write it in rust than in C. Just C lets you do it wrong