Both type inference and borrow checking have also received a whole bunch of small improvements over the past couple years. Subtle enough that you probably would

Both type inference and borrow checking have also received a whole bunch of small improvements over the past couple years. Subtle enough that you probably wouldn't notice them except in that the language just takes less effort to use. If you use Rust 2018 now, non-lexical lifetimes are a bigger recent improvement: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/edition-guide/rust-2018/ownership-and-lifetimes/non-lexical-lifetimes.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/edition-guide/rust-2018/ow...