If you're anything like me, rust was a bit difficult at first due to ownership, lifetimes, traits, and the borrow checker. At some point though, things finally

If you're anything like me, rust was a bit difficult at first due to ownership, lifetimes, traits, and the borrow checker. At some point though, things finally just clicked in my head and now I have the understanding I needed and my difficulties went away. After that point, I began writing safer code in every language because I was using the same ideas that rustc brute forced into my brain. It took probably a few weeks or so before I got it. Now I rarely have (those) issues, and when I do it's probably because I'm trying to do something weird or I was drinking and missed a place where I obviously should have used .clone() or maybe a reference. I'm just a hobby coder though, perhaps at a beginner-intermediate level with a background of writing unsafe python and c. Your mileage may vary.