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Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 by dahfizz on Thursday December 01, 2022 @03:33PM (#33822315)
By that logic, you can't write any safe rust at all because it relies on a compiler written in C++.

We are discussing the languages themselves, not any particular implementation.

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Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 by steveklabnik on Thursday December 01, 2022 @04:31PM (#33823098)
Only the codegen and many optimization parts of the compiler is in C++. The rest of it is in Rust.
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