Agreed (though for me it was a bit longer than a week)! Knowing when to use borrowing over owned copies I think is vital as well. Once I started planning out w

Agreed (though for me it was a bit longer than a week)! Knowing when to use borrowing over owned copies I think is vital as well. Once I started planning out what was going to own what my code became a lot simpler and I spent less time fighting the borrow checker in general. Hopefully as rust evolves so will the tooling and the borrow checker. It seems like you could build some cool visual aids and/or debugging info into IDEs for novices who are new. --explain already sort of does this.