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pjmlp on Jan 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Getting Past C

> I still maintain that the frequency of unsafe in a deptree is usually still small enough to be practically auditable

Not in binary libraries, hence why it is important to have a culture to only use unsafe if it really must be used.

Manishearth on Jan 4, 2017 [–]

Well, yeah, but you don't really download Rust binary libraries yet :)

You do have C libraries which you access through FFI. This is inevitably unsafe. We should be auditing more there. Though IMO it's still manageable, for most crates.

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