you_can::turn_off_the_borrow_checker

You can’t “turn off the borrow checker” in Rust, and you shouldn’t want to. Rust’s references aren’t pointers, and the compiler is free to decimate code that tries to use references as though they are. If you need raw pointer behaviour in Rust, don’t use this, use Rust’s actual raw pointers, which don’t make the same aliasing guarantees to the compiler. However, if you would like to pretend the borrow checker doesn’t exist for educational purposes and never in production code, this macro that will suppress many (though not all) borrow checker errors in the code it’s applied to.