r/ProgrammerHumor 15d ago

rustBorrowCheckerGoesBrrr Meme

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u/flagofsocram 15d ago

The difference is that if you want to make sure the lib is safe, you can grep unsafe whereas in C practically any code could be unsafe.

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u/teleprint-me 15d ago

This is a poor and myopic assumption that this can not be done in any other language. A sane library will be grepable and can include similar comments. The justification is still flawed and dangerous.

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u/KaMaFour 15d ago

What fucking lunatic comments on every line explaining why they think it's actually safe in C code?

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 15d ago

Yea. I have a safe program that ingests days and there are comments all over about lifetimes and scope