Object ownership varies widely by language (I just wrote up a survey of why - https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/01/26/object-ownership/ https://codewithoutrules

Object ownership varies widely by language (I just wrote up a survey of why - https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/01/26/object-ownership/ https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/01/26/object-ownership/), and no one ever teaches object ownership as an explicit skill (it's always implicit with each language's semantics). So it's pretty natural that switching styles would be difficult. Perhaps if you understood why these are rules are in place, or compare to other rules from other languages? GNOME project has nice strict rules for C: https://developer.gnome.org/programming-guidelines/unstable/memory-management.html.en https://developer.gnome.org/programming-guidelines/unstable/... (Full disclosure: never written any Rust, have just skimmed docs.)