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minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 months 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-up1·2 months agoBut… per-process-isolation is a hardware feature, no?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoSure, that may be (it’s definitely not in userspace). But don’t forget it works by crashing your program.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoSo you really should implement it in your compiler so you don’t contravene it
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.
So you really should implement it in your compiler so you don’t contravene it