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Memory Hell

2025-02-24 17:27:41.605391+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

As I've been learning how to use Rust, I've been a little frustrated with the "don't use pointers, use indices into arena arrays" model, it feels super clunky to this ol' assembly and C hacker, but Aapo Alsuutari on the Nova blog: Memory hell talks about how that's the direction that languages are going under the hood.

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