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		anaganisk on Sept 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C li... U mean the language where they use unsafe, to throw away all the memory safety?

afiori on Sept 8, 2021 [–]

Unsafe does not do that; mostly unsafe allows to dereference pointers, but does not disable the type system.

Borrowing rules are still enforced (eg you cannot write with a read-only pointer)

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