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zombot
23 hours ago
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josephg
21 hours ago
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Sure; but I bet raw pointers are used very infrequently in the new codebase. The code was ported from zig to rust. I bet a lot of pointers became rust references in the process.
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gcr
19 hours ago
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That’s my whole point! It’s ported to unsafe rust, not default rust.
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zombot
19 hours ago
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The point of compiler-based checking would be that you know for sure. If you have to bet, all bets are off.
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