[whytevuhuni]

> "unsafe" is in practice often needed for performance in Rust

That's the power of Rust, not a limitation of it. Rust thrives on its ability to provide safe interfaces over unsafe code.

You'll see this practice in other languages too; if you're coding safe Java, you're using a lot of unsafe code from the JVM and via JNI.

If you're using Python, the stdlib and all the performance-sensitive libraries (numpy, pandas, etc) are written in unsafe code, but even when you import those we still say your Python code is safe, and that Python overall is a memory safe language.