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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by vlovich123 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:05AM (#46214944)
About as real as claiming that C/C++ is memory safe because of sanitizers IMHO.
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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by Ygg2 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:35AM (#46216208)
I mean, Zig does have non-null pointers. It prevents some UB. Just not all.
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Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment by pjmlp on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:18AM (#46217354)
Which you can achieve in C and C++ with static analysis rules, breaking compilation if pointers aren't checked for nullptr/NULL before use.

Zig would have been a nice proposition in the 20th century, alongside languages like Modula-2 and Object Pascal.

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