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Zig vs Rust. Which one is going to be future?

I think about pros and cons and what to choose for the second (modern) language in addition to C.

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[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's when you're at the point of saying that unsafe is safe, it's the point where you should just shut it up kid...

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know why you are being so rude. I thought it was the rust community that was known for being toxic?

It's not my opinion on what the unsafe keyword means. That's its purpose. Nobody ever wants to write unsafe code on purpose. The unsafe keyword was created to allow safe programs to be created in rust that wouldn't be accepted by the strict rust compilers.

In a Venn diagram, there are 2 circles: safe programs (1) and programs that are deemed safe by the rust compiler (2).

Circle 2 is smaller than circle 1 and entirely contained inside it. However, there is no reason to not let people write programs from circle 1 that aren't in circle 2. The unsafe keyword exists to enable programmers to write those programs in rust. However, it comes with a warning, now the programmer is the one responsible for making the program inside circle 1.

[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ok I understand now. You are right. Thank you.