[bfrog]

You can and do use simple pointers in Rust, nothing prevents this.

The abstractions can be more used like static interfaces you want to reuse. E.g. a byte stream interface, a regmap interface, etc.

[59nadir]

I think there have been a few posts pointing out that the ergonomics around using just pointers in Rust is lacking severely in comparison to languages like Zig and Odin.