[username90]

Rust isn't a memory safe language though. Unsafe is a part of the language, so it wouldn't get that badge.

[pirocks]

Pretty much ever safe language has unsafe features though, either by calling out to C or something like sun.misc.Unsafe in java.

[username90]

Calling unsafe libraries isn't the same thing as having unsafe language features.

[alpaca128]

Calling unsafe libraries automatically makes the calling code unsafe by definition. You cannot have a 100% safe language that also interacts with its (unsafe) environment in any way.

The language needs a way to express the lack of safety of an external library in order to clearly isolate it from the safe code sections. In Rust that's the unsafe block.

[pdimitar]

`cargo-geiger` provides nice detailed output. I found it eye-opening and it made me more conscious what dependencies to use.

[pdimitar]

unsafe{} is an explicit escape hatch so it's much easier to audit and control for. So you are simply nitpicking.