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

  • Fal@yiffit.net
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    8 months ago

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

    • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

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

      Try writing a doubly linked list.

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        8 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

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          8 months ago

          That’s not right.

          Try and write a mutable doubly linked list in Rust and you will find that it’s problematic for the borrow checker.

          Search online and you will find solutions that work around this using ‘RefCell’ (to delegate mutable borrows to runtime), or raw pointers with ‘unsafe’.

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            8 months ago

            Both RefCell and unsafe are features of the language. That’s like saying python’s OOP sucks if you don’t use the class keyword.