Should we be worried about proliferation of unsafe in Rust code?

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I know that cargo-geiger exists but apparently most people don't care, which is not a good sign. Should we be worried about this? Are there plans to fight and decrease the use of unsafe in Rust code? At least maybe make the core primitives like Rc or Vec safe?

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