Python is memory safe? Can’t you access/address memory with C bindings?

  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    I agree for the most part, but writing data structures with shared mutable state can be a total pain in Rust.

    • Fal@yiffit.net
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      8 months ago

      How so? That’s like, the thing that makes rust awesome to write.

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        8 months ago

        It’s hard to get those kinds of data structures through the borrow checker.

        Try writing a doubly linked list.

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          8 months ago

          It’s because it’s hard to make them correct. It’s not any harder to write it in rust than in C. Just C lets you do it wrong