That's what I'm getting from the safe features emphasis and the fiercely C/C++ competitive slant argued by the evangelists in this thread.

I was looking through the pointer safety portion of the safety brochure: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/unsafe.html#what-does-safe-me... and wondering how to approach unwrapping an ethernet packet on the wire in the easy unsigned pointer-specific way it can be done in C and came across a pcap implementation in Rust (sample source): https://github.com/ebfull/pcap/blob/master/src/raw.rs Are you serious? Rust is not for me, thanks.