RFC PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2981 https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2981 RFC text: https://github.com/jswrenn/rfcs/blob/safer-transmute/

RFC PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2981 https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2981 RFC text: https://github.com/jswrenn/rfcs/blob/safer-transmute/text/0000-safer-transmute.md https://github.com/jswrenn/rfcs/blob/safer-transmute/text/00... I don't know what the status quo is, but it is very exciting work. There are also crates in this domain that work today. The two I'm aware of are https://docs.rs/zerocopy/latest/zerocopy/ https://docs.rs/zerocopy/latest/zerocopy/ and https://docs.rs/bytemuck/latest/bytemuck/ https://docs.rs/bytemuck/latest/bytemuck/