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2026-07-07 23:30 UTC

I guess in my mind I just associate raw pointers with low level. But I guess Rust lets you do that with unsafe blocks still?

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@calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 03:32

Low level goes way beyond raw pointers. But yes, rust does have raw pointers. Java does have raw pointers too I believe though. I wouldn’t call it low level. But low level is not well defined. At some point, the difference between low level and high level used to be whether you had to write a different program for each computer architecture. Under that definition, C is a high level language. Assembly (and very old languages) would be low level. My own definition of low level is: if you have to care at all about memory management, it’s low level. Basically, if the language has a garbage collector or if it automatically counts references without you explicitly telling it so, it’s a high level language for me.

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