[mumblingdrunk]

It seems you are slightly misunderstanding the point of 'unsafe' as a concept.

And no, memory safety is a huge deal, it is just that the borrow checker cannot verify the soundness of certain code, meaning you have to provide the guarantees normally given to you outside 'unsafe' blocks.

Yes, this means that a few data structures require 'unsafe', but you should be creating safe wrappers around these structures; 'unsafe' won't propagate up your code and poison everything.

[foldr]

> it is just that the borrow checker cannot verify the soundness of certain code

And I was just proving examples of such code for someone who asked. Honestly, some Rust folks get so defensive it makes them very prone to misinterpret simple factual statements about Rust as criticism.

Apparently you don’t disagree with any of the factual statements that I’m making. You just have some vague unsubstantiated feeling that I don’t ‘get’ Rust.

[mumblingdrunk]

I'm not fighting your claim that the borrow checker has perfectly reasonable situations it can't deal with. That's why 'unsafe' exists. I've already said that.

You're adding other claims and statements that make me question if you actually understand the thing you are criticising.