In the transition from 0.29 to 0.30, the sdl2 library added that lifetime parameter to textures. Personally I found that it made the library unuseable, and I s

In the transition from 0.29 to 0.30, the sdl2 library added that lifetime parameter to textures. Personally I found that it made the library unuseable, and I switched to an alternative. I don't think I was the only one, because in 0.31 they added the option to remove that lifetime as long as you are happy disposing of the textures yourself. If you do the following in your Cargo.toml they go away. [dependencies.sdl2] version = "0.31" default-features = false features = ["unsafe_textures"] I think the argument for lifetimes on textures and surfaces was to increase the safety of the library. This is probably true, but in practice I found it unuseable, and I think a system of handles along with error messages when you try to use it would have solved the problem in a workable manner with minimal performance overhead.