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Re:What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019) by seba_dos1 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:23PM (#30981329)
> People bring up `unsafe` Rust as an argument against the language

Those people usually don't understand what `unsafe` is.

Re:What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019) by afdbcreid on Sunday April 10, 2022 @11:35PM (#30984321)
I especially like the following quote in that context:

> The biggest failure in Rust‘s communication strategy has been the inability to explain to non-experts that unsafe abstractions are the point, not a sign of failure.

Appeared on TWiR: https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2021/10/20/this-week-in-r....