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Re:Servo Nightly Builds Available by mythmon_ on Friday July 01, 2016 @12:58PM (#12017784)
Does anyone know if Servo has any unsafe Rust code?
Re:Servo Nightly Builds Available by panic on Friday July 01, 2016 @01:27PM (#12018026)
Re:Servo Nightly Builds Available by majewsky on Monday July 04, 2016 @07:25AM (#12030077)
Any reasonably large program will have at least some amounts of unsafe code. And that's not a big deal. The point of Rust is to very clearly isolate the unsafe parts, so that you only need to audit 1% or less for memory safety.
Re:Servo Nightly Builds Available by kbenson on Friday July 01, 2016 @01:35PM (#12018079)
If it uses any external libraries (for example, for image handling) then I believe it does by definition, since the API wrapper you end up writing ends up being a small shim that wraps the actual library call in unsafe (because object code is unsafe, as the term in used in Rust).