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> I'm still surprised how much stuff is being written in non-safe languages even if people could get away with a managed language.

The distinction between unsafe and managed languages does not make any sense. You can for example have a safe C implementation. No need to move to another language.

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But in managed languages the safety comes by default and in unmanaged languages the safety comes by exception.

In both ways safety comes by the implementation. It just so happens that so called "safe" languages tend to have a single safe implementation while "unsafe" ones tend to have multiple unsafe and one or two safe ones.

Does the amount of unsafe implementations matter?

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