Rust’s unsafe is still much safer than your average C code. The borrow checker checks inside unsafe blocks as well, you can just circumvent it through pointers.

Rust’s unsafe is still much safer than your average C code. The borrow checker checks inside unsafe blocks as well, you can just circumvent it through pointers. But the great thing with unsafe blocks is that you get to create a safe API abstraction on top. You manually verify closely the unsafe parts, and if you got that short part right you can use the safe wrapper wherever you want safely.