This talk – "Programming without pointers" – by Andrew Kelley may be interesting to you.

https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/05c72e39-c07e-41bc-ac40-85e83...

Learning to program with pointers is enormously useful. It's simply bad software engineering to not use typing to enforce constraints on access to pointers (or addresses, or however you'd like to term them)