Rust's lifetime management and borrow checking are, frankly, a much more comprehensive and unified way of doing a lot of what I was already doing in C and C++ c

Rust's lifetime management and borrow checking are, frankly, a much more comprehensive and unified way of doing a lot of what I was already doing in C and C++ code. We end up disagreeing on which language is the simple one, and which language is the complex one. Yes, we disagree, and vehemently at that. I think borrowing is one of the most overcomplicated things in Rust, and is one of the major reasons why I am against it. You hit the nail on the head. Are you sure you care very much about safety? Yes. Every piece of code I write in C, when I write it in C, is run through a debugger before it is put in production, because I don't trust my code and I don't trust myself. In fact, I don't release anything in any programming language without having debugged it first, even when it appears to function correctly. It's still simpler than Rust!