Show me system level rust code that only uses safe then... You can't because its impossible. I doesn't matter that it's a minority of files (!), the simple fact is you can't program systems without using unsafe. Rewrite the c dependencies in rust and the amount of unsafe code increases massively
> Most Rust coders are not manually managing memory on the regular
Another sidestep. If coders in general cannot be trusted to manage memory, why can a rust coder be trusted all of a sudden?
> . But there are dozens of built-in warnings and Clippy lints that analyze unsafe blocks and attempts to flag issues early.
We already had that, it wasn't enough, hence..... rust, remember?
I’ve been using Rust for about 12 years now, and the only times I’ve had to reach for `unsafe` was to do FFI stuff. That’s it. Maybe others might have more unsafe code and for good reasons, but from my perspective, I don’t know wtf you’re talking about.
"well I don't need to use unsafe that much so I don't know what your point is" sounds like you don't really have an answer.