Your points are much more meaningful than what's expressed in the article. Regarding unsafe though. In other non-GC languages (C/C++, say) there's no keyword f

Your points are much more meaningful than what's expressed in the article. Regarding unsafe though. In other non-GC languages (C/C++, say) there's no keyword for `unsafe` as that is the default state. And that's fine. People generally don't have too much trouble trusting library authors to mostly do the right thing. In Rust the places where you have to defer to human judgement are clearly marked, and I see that as a net benefit over status quo irrespective of how much `unsafe` is actually used in one or another library. GC-ed languages are a different matter altogether. They sit on a different point in the trade-offs graph in my opinion. However, pointing out that the design trade-offs that have been taken in Rust may not be ideal for one or another use case is very much a valid thing to say!