alt Hacker News> except nearly everyone uses unsafe rust
Really? Why? I've not used Rust outside of some fairly small efforts, but I've never found a reason to reach for unsafe. So why is "nearly everyone" else using it?
> except nearly everyone uses unsafe rust
Really? Why? I've not used Rust outside of some fairly small efforts, but I've never found a reason to reach for unsafe. So why is "nearly everyone" else using it?
Let's say you want to call win32 (or Mac) OS functions, all of a sudden you're doing all kinds of wonky pointer stuff because that's how these operating systems have been architected. Doing unsafe stuff is pretty inevitable if you want to do anything non-hello-world-ish.