Only about 1% of Rust code is unsafe. We can still expect that 1% to be just as full of memory safety bugs as C++, so it's obviously important to clean those c

Only about 1% of Rust code is unsafe. We can still expect that 1% to be just as full of memory safety bugs as C++, so it's obviously important to clean those crates up, but that's a pretty huge improvement. It's also much easier (actually tractable, in many cases) to completely review a dependency's uses of unsafe, compared to doing a thorough code review of an entire dependency as you would have to do in C or C++ to get the same guarantees.