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Unsafe is exactly what they are in C. They're essentially volatile memory that can change at any time, and woe befall anyone messing around with the same register without synchronization when using an RTOS.

Good HAL crates don't have the entire register set as one struct, thank goodness. And for something like printing a message to serial in a panic handler, there are still unsafe options to yank control of registers, same as C.

What I really like about some of the HAL crates is the usage of builder patterns while configuring a peripheral. Setting up timer parameters before starting it by design is chef’s kiss wonderful.

But if you want to put the whole peripheral set in a static global, you can do that with a RefCell<Mutex<T>> or something similar. Or just yolo it and use unsafe blocks to ditch the mutex.