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[–] pheggs@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (10 children)

not a big fan of rust personally. I think it would be much smarter to bring borrow checking to C through annotations. That way we would not have to rewrite the whole world

[–] Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No C program is written to satisfy a borrow checker and most wouldn't compile with one, so adding it would require rewriting the world anyways. At that point why not choose a language that, in addition to being memory safe, also drastically cuts down on other kinds of UB, has sum types, sane error handling, a (mostly) thread safe standard library, etc.?

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