Yes, but good luck getting that through any form of code review. The unsafe block and the raw pointers or the call to transmute make it pretty obvious that something fishy is going on that’s worth reading carefully. ¯\_/(ツ)\_/¯

Unlike C or C++, where it can sometimes be harder to tell what the lifetime of something should be, or whether you’re extending the lifetime of a reference beyond the point that it is safe.

Unsafe definitely gives you loaded footguns... which for the umpteenth time is why it is considered a code smell. Sometimes you have to write smelly code, but it’s something to be avoided.