[epage]

I suspect removing unsafe is outside of the scope of Rust.

Rust tries to help you as much as possible but recognizes that it sometimes gets in the way and provides an escape hatch. The idea is to minimize and abstract the use of the escape hatch so its easily auditable.

I wish they hadn't named the escape hatch "unsafe". I think I heard the name came from PL theory but it makes it sound scarier than it is.

I remember hearing something about wanting to improve documentation around unsafe for how to best use it without running into problems.

[Manishearth]

IMO it's good that it's scarier than it actually is :)

http://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/stable/nomicon/ is the documentation for unsafe. I do plan on improving it heavily, but I'm very busy right now, and I'd like to wait for some of the unsafe semantics stuff to be pinned down so that I can go in full depth when I write this.

[epage]

Thanks for your work

> I'd like to wait for some of the unsafe semantics stuff to be pinned down so that I can go in full depth when I write this.

Thats the work I was thinking of.