[jcelerier]

I would think that modifying a pointer to a const object, e.g.

    const int x = 123;
    const int *px = &x;
    (*(int*)px) = 456;

is very, very UB in C (and most likely will crash on most platforms)

[nyanpasu64]

    int x = 123;
    const int *px = &x;
    (*(int*)px) = 456;

is legal in C. The Rust equivalent using & and &mut is UB. Writing this in Rust using raw pointers requires unsafe blocks everywhere, loses method syntax, has no -> operator, etc.