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by edubart 1758 days ago
You are correct, when not using the GC and doing manual memory management the code will be unsafe as similar as in C, but the language generate some runtime checks (that can be disabled) to minimize undefined behavior. Nelua does not provide safety semantics like Rust because this increases the language complexity a lot, thus out of the goals. Nelua is not another safe language, and the compiler will not stand in your way when doing unsafe things, the user can do unsafe things like in C.
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Okay, thanks! And props for making a simple language.