One of the places you most often need to use backlinks and other unsafe code in Rust is implementing fancy data structures. Unfortunately that happens to be wha

One of the places you most often need to use backlinks and other unsafe code in Rust is implementing fancy data structures. Unfortunately that happens to be what a lot of people think of as "programming" because they come up a lot in computer science classes... Fortunately most production code seldom needs new fancy data structures; maps, sets, tuples, structs and reference counting take you a very very long way. For less common things like graphs there are usually crates you can use off the shelf.