Comment by sitkack

5 years ago

Safety is top of mind for a large percentage of the Rust community. There was major political drama when the fastest http framework liberally used unsafe. That framework was almost universally shunned because of it and now the vast majority of the use of unsafe in that project have been removed. I think we are in a good position, but there could be in effect, a Sybil attack against norms where if unsafe was an Ok thing to do for perf or expediency that the value of Rust would be largely obliterated.

My personal hope is that lib.rs and docs.rs replace crates.io and that safety, code coverage, perf and other dimensions of quality are prominently displayed and queryable. Crates.io as it is now has outlived its usefulness.