what's rust??

??
is it a c dialect or sth???

C pointers can be addressed as arrays. C arrays "decay" into pointers when passed to functions.
(there is also a "decay" operator unary +)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1461432/what-is-array-decaying http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33291624/why-do-arrays-in-c-decay-to-pointers