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chadaustin
on Oct 26, 2015
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Writing an OS in Rust
It's the same thing with Haskell, or any other "real" system that, at some level, has to interface with low-level primitives. The platform gives you a pile of unsafe, low-level primitives (
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.4.0.0/docs/GH...
) on top of which you (or a library writer) can provide safe interfaces, e.g.
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/buffer-builder
MaxGabriel
on Oct 26, 2015
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The unsafe low-level stuff gives rise to some great function names like `reallyUnsafePtrEquality` and `accursedUnutterablePerformIO`
https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/blob/dd3c07d115840d134...
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