You still get safety, if you write normal rust code then rust will largely behave the same. But it allows you to for example to dereference raw pointers (and b

You still get safety, if you write normal rust code then rust will largely behave the same. But it allows you to for example to dereference raw pointers (and by proxy, allows pointer math). A lot of unsafe functions become available, like unguarded array access (ie, you can go out of bounds of an array) but you have to explicitly do that.