
Episode 490: Tim McNamara on Rust 2021 Edition
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The Dark Side of Rust
Rust provides the ability for you to call what we call unsafe functions with an explicit unsafe block that is ly very, very visible inside your code. Unsafe rust leaves a large security hole as it bypasses the type system in order to support low level operations. There are some sort of escape hatches to be able to create raw pointers to do things that are dangerous.
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