In-reply-to » Speaking of Rust: I talked to a Rust enthusiast the other day. She said she’s pretty satisfied with Rust’s comprehensive standard library. I was just like: “Huh?!” In my experience, you need a third-party library for pretty much anything.

@nmke-de@yarn.zn80.net I didn’t come across that one before, but it’s a good example. Apparently, there are “volatile” operations in the standard library:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/fn.read_volatile.html

It says:

Rust does not currently have a rigorously and formally defined memory model, so the precise semantics of what “volatile” means here is subject to change over time.

So, the language still is too young … ?

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