While that is true, using integers as pointers in Rust just makes them invisible to the borrow checker. It's a useful trick but one should be aware this is basically unmarked unsafe code.
Though in Rust it has another advantage over pointers: it doesn't force you to suddenly annotate every single type that touches your data structure in any way.
Though in Rust it has another advantage over pointers: it doesn't force you to suddenly annotate every single type that touches your data structure in any way.