I am a C/C++ dev learning Rust on my own, and enjoying it. I am finally starting to enjoy the jiu jitsu match with the compiler/borrow-checker and the warm “my code is safe” afterglow … but I have a question for the more experienced Rust devs out there, particularly in light of the OP’s observation about “lots of unsafe” in the Rust embedded realm (which makes sense).
If your Rust project leans heavily on unsafe code and/or many libraries that use lots of unsafe, then aren’t you fooling yourself to some degree; i.e. trusting that the unsafe code you write or that written by the 10 other people who wrote the unsafe libs you’re using is ok? Seems like that tosses some cold water on the warm afterglow.
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