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by DanWaterworth 2814 days ago
Sad to see you being downvoted when you are correct, see [1]

> forget is not marked as unsafe, because Rust's safety guarantees do not include a guarantee that destructors will always run.

This was a problem in Rust when scoped threads relied on destructors being run.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.forget.html