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Checkmate Evangelists

C++ Rust Security Programming

22 days ago 94.0K views 0 shares

Checkmate Evangelists

Rust evangelists: *screeching intensifies* when they discover 19.11% of Rust libraries use the unsafe keyword, while C++ sits smugly at the dinner table knowing it doesn't need to mark anything as unsafe because everything is potentially unsafe by default. It's like bragging about having 19.11% of your codebase labeled "might explode" while C++ just assumes you're smart enough to know the whole thing is a minefield. Memory safety theater at its finest!

Stephen Toub You Tempter

Csharp Microsoft Programming Debugging Backend

3 months ago 92.5K views 0 shares

Stephen Toub You Tempter

When Stephen Toub (C# performance guru at Microsoft) drops another blog post about unsafe optimizations, and suddenly you're contemplating risking your production environment for that sweet, sweet 0.01% performance gain. The eternal struggle of every C# dev: stick with safe, boring code that works... or throw caution to the wind and go full unsafe pointer madness just to shave off a few microseconds. Because nothing says "I'm a real programmer" like crashing prod while trying to outsmart the compiler.