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Superpowers of Unsafe Rust

August 20, 2021August 20, 2021RustRust, Rust programming language, unsafe, unsafe function, unsafe rust

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the previous blog, I discussed one of the superpowers of Unsafe Rust which is dereferencing a raw pointer. In this blog, we will see another feature of unsafe rust. Rust has wonderful borrowing and ownership rules that take care of all the memory safety issues. It is one of the leading languages. More than 9 companies including Dropbox, Coursera, Figma, npm, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon and Discord use Continue Reading

Raw Pointers in Unsafe Rust are quite powerful

July 28, 2021July 28, 2021Rustdereferencing, raw pointers, Rust, Rust programming language, unsafe, unsafe rust

Reading Time: 4 minutes Unsafe Rust. Sounds contradicting to what we know about Rust as Rust is one of the safest and memory-efficient languages. It does not have a garbage collector because it does not need one. Rust has wonderful borrowing and ownership rules that take care of all the memory safety issues. It is one of the leading languages. More than 9 companies including Dropbox, Coursera, Figma, npm, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Continue Reading