I think it's easier to write correct safe Rust than C, I wouldn't say it's easier to write correct Rust with unsafe blocks than C (many operations strip provenance, you can't free a &UnsafeCell<T> created from a Box<T>, you can't mix &mut and const but you might be able to mix Vec<T> and const (https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines/issues/2...), self-referential &mut or Pin<&mut> is likely unsound but undetermined), and it's absolutely more difficult to write sound unsafe Rust than C (sound unsafe Rust must make it impossible for callers to induce UB through any possible set of safe operations including interior mutability, logically inconsistent inputs, and panics).

I must be more tired than I thought if I said “non-tight Rust” and forgot ten minutes later.

I just think if mistakes need to be literally low as possible you’ve got a better bet than Rust unsafe.

The language spec is smaller, the static analyzers have been getting tuned for decades, and the project leaders arent kinda hostile to people using it in the first place.