[zokier]

I don't know what you mean by "deal with raw memory" but rust allows you to do silly things like:

    let foo = unsafe { std::slice::from_raw_parts_mut(0xdeadbeef as *mut u8, 42) };

That gets you a slice (pointer+length that can be used as an array) that points to 0xdeadbeef. Bit more verbose than the c equivalent

    char* foo = 0xdeadbeef;

but arguably this is pretty rare usecase even for handling raw memory