Unsafe code isn't evil, but it is scary, and I think that's what the 'nomicon is trying to get at. The reason it's scary is the risk of undefined behaviour, whi

Unsafe code isn't evil, but it is scary, and I think that's what the 'nomicon is trying to get at. The reason it's scary is the risk of undefined behaviour, which is perhaps even more dangerous than it is in C, because you can completely violate the invariants that safe Rust code relies on.