I come from a C++ background, and I quite happily used references, const references, and move operations regularly. I dare say, a good bit of the code I wrote w

I come from a C++ background, and I quite happily used references, const references, and move operations regularly. I dare say, a good bit of the code I wrote was a C++-analogue to the Rust code I write. It's just that the mutability differences reduce the code I have to look at considerably (e.g. instead of "const &" I simply have "&" and instead of "&" I have "&mut"--which reduces the quantity of code considerably). I have been programming with C++ before the C++-0x and later standards introduced some of these concepts (e.g. move) and since, and the move to Rust (as far as the borrow checker is concerned) has been mostly smooth. I think "I come from C++" isn't as important as the kind of C++ one has been used to.