Rust seems to excel in having an ecosystem that provides binding helper libraries like PyO3, Neon and napi-rs, Helix, etc. which both ensure "if it compiles, you're doing the C glue properly" and provide a layer for automatic type conversion.

...so requiring `use of "unsafe"` is often akin to forbidding Cargo/pip/NPM/etc. and then calling the language un-productive or faulting a procedural/imperative language for performing badly when you code as if you're writing Haskell.

https://www.hobofan.com/rust-interop/

https://areweextendingyet.github.io/

Using the ecosystem rather than reinventing it is a core tenet of Rust's value proposition.