[vanderZwan]

I wouldn't even say the initial slant is anti-Rust. To me it reads as "Rust wants what I want, which I appreciate, and that is exactly why I won't go easy on it". Yes, the title is click-baity, but author also immediately acknowledges that "unsafe" is a necessary compromise:

> But dealing with those things is necessary to run code on modern hardware, so something has to deal with it.

The main point is that "unsafe" is the weakest link in the language, since it bypasses the safety guarantees of Rust. Therefore it needs solutions outside of the language (in the form of how bugs are handled, and programmer culture) to minimize the risks it brings.