alt Hacker NewsThat's always been true in all the safe languages with unsafe escape hatches, except here these "primitives" are the main reason to reach for a low-level language in the first place - because they presumably require the control that low-level languages offer. Combining them in the same language might appeal to some and not to others who think that the high-level, safe parts are unnecessarily complicated because it needs to integrate with the low-level parts, and the low-level parts are unnecessarily complicated because they need to integrate with the safe parts. Anyway, some like this and some don't, but my point is that it's not "mostly solved".
> What are you talking about? I've never encountered this and I've been using Rust for 10 years.
Okay, but I've been doing low-level programming professionally for 25 years, and have encountered this over and over in large programs (over 500KLOC) as they evolve.
That's just not an accurate description of how you write Rust in practice. There's no separate "high level" and "low level" parts/forms of the language any more than the software development process already is all about building abstractions. You should be doing this in Zig, too.
It's just that sometimes some of the abstractions you need to build go outside what the ownership and borrowing system can model. And when you don't need to do that (which is 99% of the time) you also get all the benefits of the ownership/borrow system for free.