Yeah... The unsafe keyword is not unique to Rust either and exist in C# with similar semantics (although slightly different due to gc vs borrow checker memory m

Yeah... The unsafe keyword is not unique to Rust either and exist in C# with similar semantics (although slightly different due to gc vs borrow checker memory management). One way to think of it is unsafe blocks effectively let you write C, with pointers and other memory unsafe operations inside of an otherwise safe language. This can be used for performance critical code (in a similar, but higher level, way as inline asm) but is primarily used to interface with unsafe C APIs (OS APIs, graphics APIs, etc) and libraries. Entirely agree that this is a misunderstanding.