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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by jayd16 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:11AM (#22244664)
C# seems to have a neat middle ground for this kind of stuff with their Span<T> api.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by to11mtm on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:38PM (#22273111)
True, but we had our own version of unsafe for a much longer time. MS was just pragmatic enough to allow it across the ecosystem.

I'm guessing at least some of that was a side effect of wanting to support C++; not having pointers as an option would have killed C++/CLI from the get go.

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