D as a Better C

Re:D as a Better C by steveklabnik on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:34AM (#15090936)

> Wonder whats happening with Redox.

They've been involved in Google Summer of Code, and so have had lots of status update posts lately, here's the latest: https://redox-os.org/news/gsoc-self-hosting-final/

> Rust should move away from C standard library, if possible.

It's not always possible, but on systems where it is, there's some ability to do so, see https://github.com/japaric/steed

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Re:D as a Better C by knowThySelfx on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:41AM (#15097233)

Thanks Steve.

>It's not always possible, but on systems where it is, there's some ability to do so, see https://github.com/japaric/steed

Doesn't linking to it make a Rust program "unsafe", in the Rust sense? Or my understanding is probably not correct.

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Re:D as a Better C by steveklabnik on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:43AM (#15098794)

Using unsafe inside of safe is totally fine. See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/safe-unsafe-meaning.html for more.

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Re:D as a Better C by knowThySelfx on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:30AM (#15105335)

Cheers, thanks.

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