I’m not sure lifetimes are that much more complicated than the way C++ does implicit type coercion of user classes, resolution of compile time polymorphic funct

I’m not sure lifetimes are that much more complicated than the way C++ does implicit type coercion of user classes, resolution of compile time polymorphic functions, namespaces or SFINAE. I do agree it’s more like death by a thousand paper cuts rather than the torso-cleaving katana of the borrow checker. However I tend to believe any C++ codebase of consequence will run into some of this stuff, unless practices that avoid all the pitfalls are metoculously followed. Which implies a rather thorough understanding of said complexities.