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Re:C++23: Removing garbage collection support by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:13PM (#38102422)
I always pictured that in a professional setting, engineering management would have an edict that `unsafe` is simply not allowed, or possibly, they allow it with extensive code review by multiple engineers.

And that there would also be a lot of people trying to implement a double-linked list and finding themselves having to sprinkle "unsafe" all over the place to satisfy the borrow checker.

Re:C++23: Removing garbage collection support by Filligree on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:53AM (#38114306)
Both of those happen. Though in practice, unless you’re specifically implementing basic infrastructure, I’ve never yet had any need to use unsafe.