Yes - I spend about half my time with rust embedded, where unsafe code is just everywhere, whether needed or not. There is still plenty in my non-embedded stuf

Yes - I spend about half my time with rust embedded, where unsafe code is just everywhere, whether needed or not. There is still plenty in my non-embedded stuff, but a fair amount hardware-adjacent (IE i have to drive things like relay cards, just from a desktop machine). to be fair. But i've found plenty of broken unafe in things like, uh, constraint solvers. I would agree that useful and successful rust projects aggressively encapsulate (and attempt to avoid) unsafe usage. I will still maintain my belief that this will not be enough over time and scale.