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| | I've started learning Zig, a new programming language in the same problem space as C, and it has some features I really like. While it's not memory-safe in the Rust way, it has a lot of compile time and runtime checks to prevent common footguns. It has packed structs and variable-width integers to allow for easy parsing of bitpacked binary formats. Its comptime metaprogramming capabilities are spectacular. And it even interoperates seamlessly with C!
| | nora.codes
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| | [AI summary] The article explains the concept of 'unsafe' in Rust, clarifying that it allows specific low-level operations while maintaining overall memory safety through the language's type system and safe abstractions.
| | www.abubalay.com
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| | [AI summary] This post discusses the complexities of creating safe Foreign Function Interface (FFI) bindings in Rust when calling C++ code, examining tools like cxx and strategies for maintaining Rust's memory and thread-safety guarantees despite the inherent unsafety in such interactions.
| | nodogmablog.bryanhogan.net
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| I have been using Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu Linux for a while, but it was not an easy process to get it working the first time. I just got around to installing .