.NET languages have always had access to unsafe feature subsets at multiple levels of abstraction with varying degrees of "unsafety". .NET has also been slowly

.NET languages have always had access to unsafe feature subsets at multiple levels of abstraction with varying degrees of "unsafety". .NET has also been slowly leaning more into its systems-programming side. It is now at a strange crossroads where it is not like C or C++, or as a much better replacement, Rust but not like Java or Go either.