Contrast with Rust references, which are very much their own type (they more resemble pointers in their behaviour, with explicit dereferencing and address-of ne

Contrast with Rust references, which are very much their own type (they more resemble pointers in their behaviour, with explicit dereferencing and address-of needed). As a C++ dev, this took some getting used to! But I never was a fan of how passing-by-reference was invisible at the call site.