Bringing runtime index checks to compile time in Rust
9 months ago
- #Memory safety
- #Rust
- #Compile-time checks
- The article discusses leveraging Rust's features to enhance code correctness, focusing on compile-time checks.
- Key Rust features used include associated constants, const generics, and const panics for compile-time validation.
- Example 1 demonstrates custom indexing and slicing for arrays to enforce bounds checks at compile time.
- Example 2 shows enforcing data alignment requirements for EEPROM interactions using compile-time checks.
- The article highlights Rust's potential for safety and correctness, despite some language immaturities.