alt Hacker NewsYou phrase that as if 0-5% of a program being harder to write disqualifies all the benefits of isolating memory safety bugs to that 0-5%. It doesn't.
You phrase that as if 0-5% of a program being harder to write disqualifies all the benefits of isolating memory safety bugs to that 0-5%. It doesn't.
And it can easily be more than 5%, since some projects both have lots of large unsafe blocks, and also the presence of an unsafe block can require validation of much more than the block itself. It is terrible of you and overall if my understanding is far better than yours.
And even your argument taken at face value is poor, since if it is much harder, and it is some of the most critical code and already-hard code, like some complex algorithm, it could by itself be worse overall. And Rust specifically have developers use unsafe for some algorithm implementations, for flexibility and performance.