That might be true if the borrow checker were sufficiently advanced to always know better than you. But in reality it is overly conservative and you have to ex

That might be true if the borrow checker were sufficiently advanced to always know better than you. But in reality it is overly conservative and you have to expend effort just to get things to work. When that happens it feels a lot more like fighting a war, a waste of resources that ideally would have been avoided. Of course this may improve in the future, but right now I would leave the rose-tinted glasses in the drawer.