[wasmperson]

Rust's memory safety is as much a social convention as it is a language feature. The language has something better described as "mutation safety," and it's the job of library developers to use that to design UB-free APIs.

I think many people understand this subconsciously, and that this is what drives some of the more performative security culture in Rust spaces (superfluous safety comments, shunning of certain crate authors, `forbid(unsafe)`, push-back against syntax sugar, etc.).