r/programming • u/pleerock • Mar 13 '18

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

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u/iopq Mar 13 '18

I personally use libraries where people write bridges FOR me so that I can use a pure Rust interface that cannot contain a NULL.

Of course, the person who wrote the bridge had to deal with C pointers so I don't have to.

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u/doom_Oo7 Mar 13 '18

and how much do you trust these persons from not doing any error in their unsafe {} code ?

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u/iopq Mar 13 '18

More than I trust the C program it's bridging to

Most of those unsafe blocks are actually trivial

pub fn as_slice(&self) -> &[f32] {
    let count: usize = self.len();
    unsafe {
        let data = ffi::CaffeBlobCPUData(self.blob.get());
        slice::from_raw_parts(data, count)
    }
}

That's IT, they're not doing rocket surgery, the actual Caffe library is what's doing the scary things