Compiling Rust with GCC: an update

Posted Sep 10, 2022 21:12 UTC (Sat) by stephen.pollei (subscriber, #125364)
In reply to: Compiling Rust with GCC: an update by tialaramex
Parent article: Compiling Rust with GCC: an update

I watched a youtube video , RustConf 2022 - WHAT IF WE PRETENDED UNSAFE CODE WAS NICE, AND THEN IT WAS? by Aria Beingessner, that talked a little bit about "provenance" . Seems like some have reasons on why they want to make things in this area a bit more strict.

Compiling Rust with GCC: an update

Posted Sep 11, 2022 0:56 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

> Seems like some have reasons on why they want to make things in this area a bit more strict.

It's simple yet pretty useful psychological trick: if you ask people to follow needlessly strict rules but promise to relax them later 90% (if not 99%) is people would be happy with them. No matter what rules would you invent. And you can talk to the tiny subset of people who want more relaxed rules and try to make them happy, too. If you try to make the rules precise then you can never reach acceptance from everyone.

Heck, the whole Rust building is built on top of that approach: that's what separation of safe and unsafe Rust does.