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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They all have footguns that cause different crashes.

If you want to do explicit memory access without inevitable safety problems, you need Rust. That's the whole hype with Rust.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But... per-process-isolation is a hardware feature, no?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sure, that may be (it's definitely not in userspace). But don't forget it works by crashing your program.