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submitted 2 weeks ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

But... per-process-isolation is a hardware feature, no?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

So you really should implement it in your compiler so you don't contravene it

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sure, that may be (it's definitely not in userspace). But don't forget it works by crashing your program.