Same here, the borrow checker in it's current incarnation left a sour taste in my mouth. What made it worse, the language market keeps plugging the borrow check

Same here, the borrow checker in it's current incarnation left a sour taste in my mouth. What made it worse, the language market keeps plugging the borrow checker as this great fully baked feature. And (like you said) in real life it's fairly easy to run into cases where the borrow checker has false positive that are hard to work around. I was disheartening to see what it was not a priority to tackle it. There's long standing bugs (2+ years) filed in github against it. And so far the answer has been it's hard to fix this, so we're not going to do it yet. I'm really happy to this development. I hope this is sooner rather then later (have to wait to 2016)