Jon Blow addresses this in some earlier rant here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk His point being that

Jon Blow addresses this in some earlier rant here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk His point being that now you're effectively implementing a form of manual memory management to circumvent the borrow checker.