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by neonsunset 397 days ago
> The main motivation to use unsafe is p/invoke.

This is opposite to the way unsafe (either syntax or known unsafe APIs) is used today.

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Explicit use of unsafe is used for things like avoiding allocation, sure.

All use of p/invoke is also unsafe though, even if the keyword isn’t used. And it’s much more common to wrap a C library than to write a buffer pool.