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Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust

13 points northlondoner | 1 comments | 16 Dec 25 12:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

Noticed how C# is underrated. About memory safety in C#. How difficult to introduce multi-paradigm memory safety approach like Rust? Ownership model for example, would it be possible to enforce practice via some-sort of meta framework?
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worldsavior ◴[16 Dec 25 14:36 UTC] No.46289021[source]▶
C# is underrated because it only works well on Windows and has bad frameworks such as .NET.

There isn't really any reason to use it outside of developing Windows native applications. There are much better cross-platform languages, with a bigger community and better support.

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1. northlondoner ◴[16 Dec 25 15:50 UTC] No.46290044[source]▶
No. It is quite a viable cross-platform language and there is a large community. 1. C# works on Linux almost seamlessly. See the documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux 2. Actually C# specification is open. Meaning C# is like Java, anyone can implement in any platform. There are even alternating compilers, open sourced, thanks to Mono's efforts: https://www.mono-project.com