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Unsafe Rust: living up to its name
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this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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If this is a real headline then the author is either incompetent regarding code and the complexity of big projects or very competent in regards to marketing and making ragebait headlines. Either of the two.
It's not even about the size or complexity of the project - the code in question is wrapped in an
unsafe{}block, so no one should be expecting it to have the guarantees you'd normally get from rust. It's ragebait.The headline is based on the classic Onion headline / News In Brief article used after every new mass shooting in America