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Field Projections — Making Custom Pointers feel Builtin by Benno Lossin and Nadri. Rust makes heavy use of custom pointers filling the gap (& going beyond) between references (`&T` and `&mut T`) and raw pointers (`*const T` and `*mut T`). Currently, they have two major issues: ergonomics and feature parity with builtin references and `Box T`. Raw pointers and their extensions (e.g. `NonNull T`) have especially bad ergonomics. We are working on proposing the Field Projection language feature tha
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Nadri -- We poked at rustc internals so you won’t have to. In this talk I will present Charon, a tool that extracts the complete contents of a crate and its dependencies into an easy-to-use representation, for use in analysis and code generation tools.
