Explore Swift's unsafe features and pointer types in this 25-minute conference talk from try! Swift Tokyo 2017. Dive into the world of direct memory allocation and manipulation as speaker Nate Cook, managing editor of NSHipster, examines Swift's approach to pointers. Learn about typed and raw pointers, buffers, implicit bridging, and casting. Gain insights on maintaining safety while utilizing unsafe APIs, and discover how to leverage these tools when stepping outside Swift's usual boundaries of strong types, value semantics, and automatic memory management. Perfect for developers seeking to understand Swift's performance capabilities and low-level memory operations.