Indeed. Raw pointers are mostly when either crossing FFI barriers (say, calling or being called by C) or when what you want to do can’t be expressed within Rust

Indeed. Raw pointers are mostly when either crossing FFI barriers (say, calling or being called by C) or when what you want to do can’t be expressed within Rust’s ownership rules without taking on overhead (Rc, cloning, indirections, etc) that’s unacceptable to your specific use case.