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Indeed. In my experience it's also fairly common for C and C++ functions to be non-thread safe and have the implicit restriction that they should always be called from the same thread. OpenGL being a good example of that.

Raw bindings to OpenGL in Rust is actually a good example of FFI that wouldn't be safe to call for about half a trillion reasons. There are so many implicit constraints in there that even manually designing a safe Rust interface is a rather complicated endeavor.



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