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Re:A Sad Day for Rust by stanferder on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:42AM (#22076210)
Points well taken, but I think "unsafe" turns it into a value judgment, especially (as samatman says adjacent) since it isn't necessarily really unsafe.
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Re:A Sad Day for Rust by cle on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:03PM (#22076509)
It is unsafe. There are just multiple definitions of unsafe being used here. I agree that it's unfortunate that the meaning of the keyword is easy to misinterpret.

Given the background of the people who designed Rust, I don't think it's reasonable to just assume that the keyword "unsafe" has an implicit value judgment.

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