this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2025
246 points (94.9% liked)

Technology

79015 readers
3943 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
246
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 (www.theregister.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
130 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] m33@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's funny because using unsafe might be an hint that Rust is not the right tool for the job. Yet we have rust in the kernel, rust coreutils... I just can't wrap my head arout it, yet.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You shouldn't have said that. Now the rust zealots are going to come for you.

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Got downvoted, here they come…

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Unsafe is expected and necessary in certain situations. Using other languages doesn't change that fact.
It's talked about in the docs