[Etzos]

> It's the fourth most downloaded crate.[1] Somebody may have "deprecated" it, but the users aren't paying attention.

The most downloaded stat appears to be for the most downloaded of all time. Considering the difficulty of using serde on stable until recently, it's not surprising that it has been downloaded so much and would continue to be as projects move away from it.

> It's not listed as "deprecated" on its own Cargo page.

This is true, however as you said the GitHub page and the docs page both mention that. Unless one already knows how to use the crate, they are probably going to check the docs and see the deprecation. Although having a deprecation notice on crates.io does seem prudent.

> Again, denial. Not seeing many links from the "everything is OK, don't need to look at this" crowd.

You kind of skipped over the part where the parent poster explained why it wasn't even a big deal in the first place. It really feels like you're grasping at straws to make a point and I don't see why. No one seems to be denying that a lot of unsafe code is potentially bad, but there is really no solid proof that there is an unreasonable amount of unsafe usage. In fact, the parent has mentioned and linked to a list of such usages. If you're going to make such an extraordinary claim I think it behooves you to provide more than just a handful of examples.