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Re:A Sad Day for Rust by xamuel on Friday January 17, 2020 @10:51AM (#22075661)
If a fundamental plank in rust's safety platform involves "apply the honor system to random people on the internet who swear they've vetted something", then that's a problem.
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Re:A Sad Day for Rust by K0nserv on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:03AM (#22075780)
That’s not true, the convention is to annotate unsafe blocks with a comment explaining why the code is in fact safe. There are even projects that automate looking for these
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