To add on, unsafe Rust's main strength is the tools and the culture of encapsulating it well. It's probably the case that "well designed code that uses unsafe" is much safer overall, as you would expect for a memory-safe language. But it doesn't just come about from using unsafe.
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https://chadaustin.me/2024/10/intrusive-linked-list-in-rust/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41944121
While we at it, someone argued that Zig is nicer than unsafe Rust: https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/
Thank you, appreciated!
To add on, unsafe Rust's main strength is the tools and the culture of encapsulating it well. It's probably the case that "well designed code that uses unsafe" is much safer overall, as you would expect for a memory-safe language. But it doesn't just come about from using unsafe.