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16 November 2025

  • curprev 00:0000:00, 16 November 2025 PC talk contribs 3,767 bytes +3,767 Created page with "A single unsafe block once saved our payment service from collapse.
It was the only way to stop latency from spiking and throughput from falling off a cliff. Unsafe is not evil. It is power wrapped in responsibility.
Used with intent, it can make the impossible both safe and fast. This is a look at six real scenarios where unsafe Rust was the right call — and why. 1. Calling a Battle-Tested C Library Without Copies Problem: Rewriting a C encoder in Rust was..."
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