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> Perhaps one day unsafe programming languages will be forbidden to use.

That would mean ruling out a whole lot of performance-critical software (including that written in unsafe Rust). Be careful what you wish for.

I'm quite sure the performance hit will be fine in a few decades.

That kind of thinking made sense twenty years ago where you could assume Moore's law was going to hold into the next decades.

You don't think we will have budget for a few safety checks?

That's exactly the line of thinking that has made computers much less responsive than they were 20 years ago.