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0 pointstimeon2y ago0 comments

> The key benefit of Rust is supposed to be better memory safety than C; if everything is using unsafe, why bother?

Is Hyper all contained inside unsafe block? As far as I know it is not. So even if there is some unsafe code it is not same as writing it in C.

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lmm2y ago

Apparently even quite basic things like splitting a string are done in unsafe code. So it sounds like while it may not be 100% unsafe, most of it is.

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0 pointstimeon2y ago0 comments

> The key benefit of Rust is supposed to be better memory safety than C; if everything is using unsafe, why bother?

Is Hyper all contained inside unsafe block? As far as I know it is not. So even if there is some unsafe code it is not same as writing it in C.

lmm2y ago

Apparently even quite basic things like splitting a string are done in unsafe code. So it sounds like while it may not be 100% unsafe, most of it is.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse