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Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf] by lesuorac on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @12:35PM (#36060557)
The other part I find amusing is that the issues found in the paper is that not enough was rewritten into Rust!!

The first F in FFI [1] means that you have an interaction of non-Rust and Rust. (Or two non-Rust languages but that's moot).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface

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Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf] by cogman10 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:07PM (#36061086)
Yeah, it's a bit like saying "See, Java isn't memory safe! Look what happens when we expose native methods and calls between the JVM and C!"

FFI is inherently unsafe regardless of language.

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