Rust's unsafe still needs to uphold the rules of safe Rust. It's not a license to just do whatever you want. There are often ways to do whatever you want, but

Rust's unsafe still needs to uphold the rules of safe Rust. It's not a license to just do whatever you want. There are often ways to do whatever you want, but it's not as simple as "I have a raw pointer now let's goooooo." I'd describe it as different, not "less", but I wasn't the one who said it originally.