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by bjz_ 1380 days ago
Thanks for reminding people!

> This is a thought I've often had myself. The name `unsafe` is not wrong, per-se, but it can sometimes have the wrong connotation

Yeah, this is one of the many things on this list that isn't a new idea, see this RFC from June 2014: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/117. I believe D has a `@trusted` attribute at the function level that serves a similar purpose.