I never filed the rustc bug report. I suspect that the problem is actually in LLVM.
Byte strings are much easier to use than UTF-8. Also, I only needed to execute regular expressions against ASCII HTTP headers. I think `safe-regex` will get String support eventually, or somebody will write another safe regular expression library.
Safe Rust has a bright future. Eventually, modern OSes will simply refuse to run software built from unsafe code, unless it has attached correctness proofs. This will mostly solve the IT security dumpster fire. To get us there, we need to write more useful things in safe Rust or other memory-safe languages.
Byte strings are much easier to use than UTF-8. Also, I only needed to execute regular expressions against ASCII HTTP headers. I think `safe-regex` will get String support eventually, or somebody will write another safe regular expression library.
Safe Rust has a bright future. Eventually, modern OSes will simply refuse to run software built from unsafe code, unless it has attached correctness proofs. This will mostly solve the IT security dumpster fire. To get us there, we need to write more useful things in safe Rust or other memory-safe languages.