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		skybrian on March 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust Could you use position-independent internal references (relative pointers) to make data copyable? Does Rust have good support for that?

steveklabnik on March 28, 2024 [–]

Rust does not have native support for relative pointers, so you'd have to hack that together with unsafe. It's not generally done.

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