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by username90 1845 days ago
Calling unsafe libraries isn't the same thing as having unsafe language features.
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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.

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