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Rust NYC: Jon Gjengset - Demystifying unsafe code
Jon Gjengset's Rust NYC talk explaining what `unsafe` in Rust actually means, why it is dangerous, and why it is sometimes necessary. He works through the Rustonomicon to separate fair concerns from overblown ones.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as the best calm explanation of unsafe Rust, from a speaker commenters trust on the topic.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Rust Programming Language
- Topic
- unsafe rust
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2024
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From the original HN conversations
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There's a great new talk by on Gjengset on youtube that tackles just this question: Rust NYC: Jon Gjengset - Demystifying unsafe code [VIDEO]
Sammi on Hacker News · 2020-04
In How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020While I might agree that it's easy if you use a reference counter, this is not going to be as performant as the typical linked list written in C, which is why the standard library uses unsafe for its implementation of stuff like this. If …
saghm on Hacker News · 2024-12
In Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized
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