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by oconnor663 2618 days ago
> can't do the gymnastics with pointers that C can

It can if you write the "unsafe" keyword, but there's a pretty strong community norm around not doing that sort of thing, unless you can encapsulate it inside some sort of safe API. And to be fair to C, I think C can close the gap with Rust/Fortran if you use the "restrict" keyword a lot?