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pkolaczk
on Feb 16, 2023
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Show HN: Ractor – a Rust-based actor framework wit...
All safe language runtimes use unsafe code by this logic.
Alifatisk
on Feb 16, 2023
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Does that also apply to GC-languages?
linguistics__
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Yes, if you dare to look into a GC implementation, you might see some truly unsafe code indeed
alpaca128
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You can't have 100% safety all the way down. Garbage collection doesn't help you if the VM itself has a memory leak or some driver crashes.
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