#Jamii Brandon’s summary of #Zig memory safety: “Zig removes some of the most egregious footguns from c, has better defaults, makes some good practices more ergonomic, and benefits from a fresh start in the standard library (eg using slices everywhere). But it does not nearly approach the level of systematic prevention of memory unsafety that rust achieves,” citing use-after-free, use-after-realloc, and invalidating an interior pointer to a union as examples “I often run into”. Lots of information about #performance of different programming language design choices, for example in Rust or Azul’s Zing garbage collector.
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on 02021-11-10Dan Luu on Jamie Brandon’s newsletter. “[My friends] associate substack with “smart-sounding but wrong” and you have to overcome that to get them to read a newsletter.” #jamii
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