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Well, I'm still not quite proficient with Rust, so maybe my feelings are misguided, but the whole situation seems really terrifying to me.

Well, I'm still not quite proficient with Rust, so maybe my feelings are misguided, but the whole situation seems really terrifying to me. Like, way too terrifying than that we could just make a point about "not doing like that again" and calmly move on to the 1.0. After all, why Rust? Because we're all tired of problems with C++ and stuff. And the point isn't really about making a language that would be safe "as often as possible", it would be quite terrible goal, actually. The point is, I believe, to make it nearly impossible to write unsafe code accidentally , without even noticing it. And again, maybe it's just me, but what I understood from that post is totally non-intuitive to me. I don't really understand what are the guidelines and how many more gotchas like that there could be. "Not to mess with unsafe code" is not really good guideline, because it turns out that it can be not quite obvious that the code is unsafe.

Posted by krick on Apr 27, 2015, 4:22 PM

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Well, I'm still not quite proficient with Rust, so maybe my feelings are misguided, but the whole situation seems really terrifying to me.

krickApr 27, 2015, 4:22 PM

Well, I'm still not quite proficient with Rust, so maybe my feelings are misguided, but the whole situation seems really terrifying to me. Like, way too terrifying than that we could just make a point about "not doing like that again" and calmly move on to the 1.0. After all, why Rust? Because we're all tired of problems with C++ and stuff. And the point isn't really about making a language that would be safe "as often as possible", it would be quite terrible goal, actually. The point is, I believe, to make it nearly impossible to write unsafe code accidentally , without even noticing it. And again, maybe it's just me, but what I understood from that post is totally non-intuitive to me. I don't really understand what are the guidelines and how many more gotchas like that there could be. "Not to mess with unsafe code" is not really good guideline, because it turns out that it can be not quite obvious that the code is unsafe.

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