Re:What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019)
by bitbckt on Sunday April 10, 2022 @03:32PM
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I like the sound of “trusted”.
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Re:What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019)
by MereInterest on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:41PM
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I think the benefit of the name "unsafe" is that it immediately tells newer users that the code inside has deeper magic than they may be comfortable using. Where "trusted" is what the writer attests to the compiler, "unsafe" is what writer warnings to a future reader.