Mastodawn

> Rust is too constrained without [unsafe blocks] to get any useful work done.

Just saw this in the wild again.

@veloren has about 330,000 lines of Rust code today. It's a networked, multi-threaded, 3D, portable game and game engine played by thousands of people. Very much not a contrived example. Name any sort of code and you'll find it in there: GUI, packet parsing, physics, DSP, decision trees, database calls, ECS, procgen, audio. It's all in there.

It has 12 instances of `unsafe`:

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Mikalai

@jsbarretto @veloren
I'd see how someone can say this out of their C habits. I feel that this person writes clever code.
Those of us in real world, with maintenance know that clever code is something to avoid. But before you accend to "professional lazyness" level of wisdom, clever coding can be alluringly blinding.