[uecker]

But there are more than 2000 uses of "unsafe" even in the tiny amount of Rust use in the Linux kernel. And you would need to compare to C code where an equally amount of effort was done to develop safe abstractions. So essentially this is part of the fallacy Rust marketing exploits: comparing an idealized "Safe Rust" scenario compared to real-word resource-constrained usage of C by overworked maintainers.

[Daishiman]

The C code comparison exists because people have written DRM drivers in Rust that were of exceedengly high quality and safety compared to the C equivalents.