There's a lot of stuff in Rust that makes such types manageable. Also, such types should always be expressed as: struct MyFancySharedThing<T> { thing: Rc<R

There's a lot of stuff in Rust that makes such types manageable. Also, such types should always be expressed as: struct MyFancySharedThing<T> { thing: Rc<RefCell<T>> } Rc and RefCell are implementation details and should _always_ be hidden.