[Const-me]

All modern OSes are written in C and/or C++, unsafe code is inevitable there. Some people tried to fix that a few times (hardware java machines, singularity/midori, etc.), wasn't good enough.

> unsafe code called from Dictionary.Remove

For creating, and checking for, empty reference.

Rust standard library uses unsafe way more. That design has consequences, e.g. check this https://medium.com/@shnatsel/how-rusts-standard-library-was-...

It's somewhat harder to screw up when you can rely on VM guarantees, and don't need that level of trust in the libraries you consume.

[Arnavion]

You misunderstand. I have nothing against the standard libraries of a language using unsafe code. However you are the one that said:

>but for general-purpose stuff like the web you never need anything unsafe.

... and:

>> it's pretty common in both of these languages for there to be C libraries involved somewhere in the stack.

>Negative. [...] All their core components are 100% managed code.

... so I posted a correction.