Having written quite a bit of Rust, I agree with you that Rust is far from simple and not always as intuitive as say...Python or Ruby for example. However, I d

Having written quite a bit of Rust, I agree with you that Rust is far from simple and not always as intuitive as say...Python or Ruby for example. However, I do appreciate the syntax which IMO is in that sweet spot between conciseness and expressiveness. Finally, the borrow checker is quite the experience. Whenever I banged my head trying to get some snippet to pass BCK, there was always an OH moment where I realized something was terribly wrong with my design. PS: Yes, there's still a few weird BCK false-positives. Hopefully we'll soon have non-lexical lifetimes[1] that should fix most issues. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/16 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/16