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by jaggederest 244 days ago
Also "safe" and "unsafe" have very specific meanings, not the more widely used meanings. It's not inherently dangerous to call unsafe code that is well written, it's really more a statement about who is taking responsibility for the behavior, the writer or the compiler.

I like the term "checked" and "unchecked" better but not enough to actually lobby to change them, and as a term of art they're fine.