[yazaddaruvala]

Do you think there is some room for education here? Would it be useful for Crates.io to show some "coverage" metric? eg. "unsafe lines = 5%" or "unsafe instructions = 0.01%"

I think that would be a pretty easy way to put this convo to bed yea?

Have there been talks about this before? Is it worth me opening an issue/RFC on Cargo?

[Manishearth]

I don't think it's worth making changes like that to satisfy random misconceptions unless they are widespread.

There are good reasons for having an unsafe-code flag on a crate. This is not one of those.

This has been discussed in the past and the main concern IIRC is that this may make people afraid to use crates that contain unsafe code even if it is well audited. There's a finer balance you want to strike here.