alt Hacker NewsIs three random people saying unsafe Rust is hard supposed to make us forget about C’s legendary problems with UB, nil pointers, memory management bugs, and staggering number of CVEs?
You have zero sense of perspective. Even if we accept the premise that unsafe Rust is harder than C (which frankly is ludicrous on the face of it) we’re talking about a tiny fraction of the overall code of Rust programs in the wild. You have to pay careful attention to C’s issues virtually every single line of code.
With all due respect this may be the singular dumbest argument I’ve ever had the displeasure of participating in on Hacker News.
> Even if we accept the premise that unsafe Rust is harder than C (which frankly is ludicrous on the face of it)
I think there's a very strong dependence on exactly what kind of unsafe code you're dealing with. On one hand, you can have relatively straightforwards stuff like get_unsafe or calling into simpler FFI functions. On the other hand, you have stuff like exposing a safe, ergonomic, and sound APIs for self-referential structures, which is definitely an area of active experimentation.
Of course, in this context all that is basically a nitpick; nothing about your comment hinges on the parenthetical.