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minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 days agoThey all have footguns that cause different crashes. If you want to do explicit memory access without inevitable safety problems, you need Rust. That’s the whole hype with Rust.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 day agoBut… per-process-isolation is a hardware feature, no?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-219 hours agoSure, that may be (it’s definitely not in userspace). But don’t forget it works by crashing your program.
They all have footguns that cause different crashes.
If you want to do explicit memory access without inevitable safety problems, you need Rust. That’s the whole hype with Rust.
But… per-process-isolation is a hardware feature, no?
Sure, that may be (it’s definitely not in userspace). But don’t forget it works by crashing your program.