> It's not just about making unsafe programming practices safe through better compiler practices, it's about stopping the unsafe programs before they reach the

> It's not just about making unsafe programming practices safe through better compiler practices, it's about stopping the unsafe programs before they reach the compilation step. I would like to add to the end of that: "...unless you explicitly tell the compiler to do it." I can't think of anything that you can do in C that you can't do in Rust unsafe blocks, you just have to tell the compiler explicitly.