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Re:UFO: A Drone/UAV Programming Library for Rust by bluejekyll on Friday April 05, 2019 @06:08PM (#19587492)
> so one of the main benefits of Rust is irrelevant

Not sure what you mean with this comment. Even in a context like this, Rust has a lot of safety benefits, but yes you don't have access to the stdlib, and are restricted to core.

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Re:UFO: A Drone/UAV Programming Library for Rust by perennate on Friday April 05, 2019 @07:14PM (#19587921)
I think parent meant "one of the main benefits" = safety not as useful because anyway no dynamic allocations are needed to implement a basic flight control algorithm.
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Re:UFO: A Drone/UAV Programming Library for Rust by bluejekyll on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:29PM (#19588785)
It also helps with other references, shared mutability, UB, etc.

Allocation and deallocation focuses on small sliver of safety, but yes, That’s not a concern in that context.

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