I think one of the big existential questions for Rust early on was whether the "unsafe is evil" attitude was viable. If avoiding unsafe was very inconvenient, e

I think one of the big existential questions for Rust early on was whether the "unsafe is evil" attitude was viable. If avoiding unsafe was very inconvenient, everyone would've kept writing unsafe code all the time, and this part of the culture wouldn't have gotten traction. Today I think it's easy to say "we all know not to use unsafe in 'normal' code", but that wasn't always a given, and it might take some more ongoing effort to keep this culture in the long term.