Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said.

Python is memory safe? Can’t you access/address memory with C bindings?

  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Both RefCell and unsafe are features of the language. That’s like saying python’s OOP sucks if you don’t use the class keyword.

    • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      I’m not saying it sucks. I’m saying it can be less straight-forward than conventional languages, even for experienced programmers.

      The borrow checker is fantastic, but there’s no doubt that it requires a new way of thinking if you’ve never seen Rust before.