alt Hacker NewsYeah that is definitely 1000% wrong. A compiler can do its job with totally abstract data structures. If anything would need to do unsafe stuff in memory, it would probably be a linker.
Yeah that is definitely 1000% wrong. A compiler can do its job with totally abstract data structures. If anything would need to do unsafe stuff in memory, it would probably be a linker.
> probably be a linker
I don't think that's any different either. The core job of linking isn't particularly unsafe.
(Unless, similarly, you're doing the hot reloading stuff)