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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same for C, & yields a pointer to a value, and * allows you to access the data. (For rust people, a pointer is like a reference with looser type checking)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt many people have ever use that or any of the other low level memory API. The main appeal of rust is not having to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but raw pointers and unsafe Rust are still covered in the official learning material, so I assume that most Rust devs know about raw pointers.