Is unsafe Rust safer than C?

Is Rust more secure than C?

Rust has a tighter approach to security and code quality than C++, and that's one of the biggest arguments in favor of Rust.

Which is better Rust or C?

Rust was created to provide high performance, comparable to C and C++, with a strong emphasis on the code's safety. C compilers don't really care about safety. This means programmers need to take care not to write a program that causes memory violation or data races.

Why is C considered unsafe?

C heap values are created in a type-unsafe way. C casts, unchecked array accesses, and unsafe deallocation can corrupt memory during its lifetime. C deallocation is unsafe, and can lead to dangling pointers.

Is Rust lower level than C?

Coming from a systems/DSP background, Rust feels at times "higher level" than C/C++ (especially w.r.t. the crates ecosystem, although I suspect a large part of that is its youth and general instability), but mostly akin to writing C-with-classes-style C++ with static analysis baked into your build script.