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Cyph0n on Oct 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most la...

Rust enums are a form of tagged unions.

Rust unions are plain old unions that are mainly used for C interop. This is why using them requires unsafe code.

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