Hi All, I'm still trying to wrap my head around a real-life use case for unsafe code. Does anybody have an example (or repo) of some being used? Many thanks, Kev

[image] Keverne: I was wondering what someone would use it for in a project example. ...I was wondering where it'd be required in a project. In general "unsafe" is not required in application code. My plan is never to write "unsafe" into my applications. After all I don't in my Javascript/n…

Real life example of unsafe code usage

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TomP July 7, 2020, 3:19pm 6

I addressed this in a recent related thread. FFI and interfacing to a GPU are two obvious uses that are currently unavoidable.

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Real life example of unsafe code usage

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