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Not really though. That's like saying that no language is "safe" because the compiler could have a bug.

It's true that safe wrappers around unsafe code sometimes have bugs in them, but it's orders of magnitude easier to get the abstraction right once than to use unsafe correctly in many places sprawled across a large codebase.



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