I don't want unsafe. I just want it to be out of my hair. RefCell is perfectly safe.

> wrap everything in unsafe

You are expected to follow Rust's memory model in unsafe blocks. Treating unsafe Rust like C is much more dangerous than just using C.

Assuming you're talking about the aliasing rules, my understanding is that that only applies if you are mixing pointers with references. If you just use `pointer::read` `pointer::write` the aliasing rules don't apply (doesn't mean it's safe, but it won't immediately be undefined behaviour to write to a mutable pointer while another mutable pointer exists, as it would be if you aliased a mutable reference).