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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
(www.theregister.com)
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The safety designed into Rust is suddenly foreign to the C family that I'm honestly not sure you can do that. Even "unsafe" Rust doesn't completely switch off the enforced safety
Yeah, to quote the manual:
"[Unsafe Rust allows you to]
[...] The unsafe keyword only gives you access to these five features that are then not checked by the compiler for memory safety."
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch20-01-unsafe-rust.html