I don't think we should be upset with people for their legitimate frustrations. But I do think we should be honest with the basic limitations of what we set out

I don't think we should be upset with people for their legitimate frustrations. But I do think we should be honest with the basic limitations of what we set out to do. A safe language that has dynamic allocation without GC simply has to have a borrow checker, and as far as we know that borrow checker has to have some limitations. Those limitations prevent some kind of code from being written in the same way it was written in C.