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The main motivation to use unsafe is p/invoke. Without unsafe, zero init is not needed.

• neonsunset 1y ago
  > The main motivation to use unsafe is p/invoke. This is opposite to the way unsafe (either syntax or known unsafe APIs) is used today.
  • dontlaugh 1y ago
    Explicit use of unsafe is used for things like avoiding allocation, sure. All use of p/invoke is also unsafe though, even if the keyword isn’t used. And it’s much more common to wrap a C library than to write a buffer pool.