FWIW that the borrow checker has nothing to do with multithreading, all the guarantees enforced are important in single threaded contexts. http://manishearth.g

FWIW that the borrow checker has nothing to do with multithreading, all the guarantees enforced are important in single threaded contexts. http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/17/the-problem-with-shared-mutability/ http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/17/the-problem-wit... It's a prerequisite for safe scoped multithreading, but that's about it.