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[–] aloso@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt many people have ever use that or any of the other low level memory API. The main appeal of rust is not having to do that.

[–] aloso@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but raw pointers and unsafe Rust are still covered in the official learning material, so I assume that most Rust devs know about raw pointers.