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		Ygg2 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental I mean, Zig does have non-null pointers. It prevents some UB. Just not all.

pjmlp 2 days ago [–]

Which you can achieve in C and C++ with static analysis rules, breaking compilation if pointers aren't checked for nullptr/NULL before use.

Zig would have been a nice proposition in the 20th century, alongside languages like Modula-2 and Object Pascal.

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