Whenever someone asks this question, I point them at this... Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists: http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/b

Whenever someone asks this question, I point them at this... Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists: http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/ http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/ The point of this tutorial is not "wow it's hard to write linked lists in Rust", but that Rust supports a number of different memory models, and this tutorial takes you through each of them by writing a linked list using each one. Additionally, it's snarky and entertaining. All that said, I think it's a really good crash course on the Rust memory model, and once you have your brain wrapped around the various approaches, it should hopefully make it easier to understand how to avoid encountering those borrow checker errors.