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Id trust old software written in a memory unsafe language that has a sterling track record over new software written in a safer language that has not much of a track record at all.



The Rust authors condemned the world to play their stupid game of semantics when they created the `unsafe` keyword.

The feature turns off extra compile time checks. That’s it. It doesn’t mean the program is correct.

This program still allows potentially damaging things like `rm -rf /`. So, it’s not data safe. It’s unknown whether it’s secure safe either, since it’s not been audited and it’s still “alpha”.




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