[timeon]

> The key benefit of Rust is supposed to be better memory safety than C; if everything is using unsafe, why bother?

Is Hyper all contained inside unsafe block? As far as I know it is not. So even if there is some unsafe code it is not same as writing it in C.

[lmm]

Apparently even quite basic things like splitting a string are done in unsafe code. So it sounds like while it may not be 100% unsafe, most of it is.