[jitl]

fair. i guess i used “rust” in collective noun sense for “rust the ecosystem and community”; from my armchair experience there’s a big contingent of that community that abhors unsafe and software that uses it, and it’s that community/ecosystem aspect that prohibits unsafe since of course the language and compiler support it just fine.

[tomjakubowski]

The community does not abhor use of unsafe. The community abhors bad usage of unsafe: unsafe code should be used only when necessary, and ideally to build safe abstractions.