• Irdial@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    It’s great that there are new languages coming along that strike a balance between performance and safety. However, there’s always going to be a need for unsafe, low-level code. I work in semiconductors and occasionally have to write firmware and drivers for our devices. There’s no avoiding C in those environments.

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      3 days ago

      Unsafe rust has proven that it can be an effective alternative here, ideal especially when the consumers are also rust.