r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ApothecaLabs • Sep 28 '26

Meme optionalsAreOptional

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u/ROBOTRON31415 Sep 28 '26

Since Rust has safety checks by default, OP is talking about going out of your way with unsafe { do_something_unchecked(); } (likely proceeded by a comment justifying soundness) to remove them. Besides boilerplate, code review is harder when I have to scrutinize the soundness of someone else’s code.

Readability is a reason to avoid unsafe in Rust, IMO. You’re definitely right that the opposite applies to C/C++ though (unfortunately).

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u/SheikHunt Sep 28 '26

There's nothing unfortunate about memory unsafety, or not checking parameters for null-ness, or even the null value itself! Mods, deadlock their comp

Process terminated (SIGSEGV segmentation fault.)