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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by jononor on Saturday February 11, 2017 @11:09AM (#13623172)
Is getting that past the person who is reviewing your code also trivial?
Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by sidlls on Sunday February 12, 2017 @01:08PM (#13629587)
Possibly. Depends on the quality of the reviewer and the complexity of the code (as a whole). On average Rust programmers aren't necessarily better than programmers using any other language. If history is a guide then if Rust takes off there will be plenty of terrible, buggy, unsafe and very thoroughly reviewed Rust code out there used in popular, widely used applications or services.

I find the notion that "explicit unsafe makes bugs less likely" to be suspect. It seems reasonable, almost tautological at first glance. But theory and practice are different animals.