A Type Safety Hole in Unsafe Rust

There seems to be a widespread belief among Rust programmers that bypassing the borrow checker does not completely compromise type safety. This article attempts to show the converse, that lifetime checks are absolutely essential for type safety, even if … Read more

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One month ago the Rust team put out a call for blogs 2020. I quite like these posts because it provides an occasion to provide perspective on all of Rust, by everyone. In this post I'll look back at Rust's development over 2019, and cover topics that seem... (more…)

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