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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Mel <mel@zzzzz.com> writes:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:29:11 -0700, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> 
> wrote:
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>> > On 29/08/2019 04:36, Melzzzzz wrote:
>> [...]
>> >> Rust is nowhere near C. Actually, nowhere near C++. It is nice
>> >> language, but not for low level programming. During years they
>> >> ditched GC and most of the things that cripples determinism and
>> >> performance, it is ok, but without pointer arithmetic and null
>> >> pointers it is high level language.  Having to convert pointer to
>> >> int and back in order to perform arithmetic is worse that doing it
>> >> in assembler.
>> >
>> > That sounds terrible.  (I am not very familiar with Rust.)
>
>> What's terrible about it?  Rust doesn't particularly need pointer
>> arithmetic; unlike C, it's array indexing isn't defined in terms of
>> pointers.  
>
> You need pointers for low level things.

You need pointer *arithmetic* for far fewer things than you need
pointers for.

>                                         In rust you need unsafe 
> blocks for almost anything.

So use unsafe blocks.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */