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I think this point gets missed too often in the face of technical things the Rust compiler does.

There was a world where everyone just used the unsafe keyword everywhere, and Rust code crashed & had memory issues all the time.

The big thing Rust did wasn't invent borrow checking or memory safety; it's the ease of use, the defaults, and the social aspect of "if unsafe is used, a memory bug is in the unsafe part".