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The problem is, do people know what they are doing?

I didn't follow the whole Actix situation carefully, but here is a discussion where someone found of 15 ways to trigger undefined behaviour in safe code, caused by the unsafes in Actix:

https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/289#issuecomment-3...

Personally, I'd take halving the speed of my project to reduce the possibility of remote security holes. We live in a dangerous world nowadays, and we should take every chance to minimise the risk of serious security issues.



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