We have a 170K line project written in Rust (https://pernos.co https://pernos.co). I've written a lot of C++ in the past, but also Java and other things (I've b

We have a 170K line project written in Rust (https://pernos.co https://pernos.co). I've written a lot of C++ in the past, but also Java and other things (I've been programming for nearly 40 years now), so I'm familiar in developing with and without GC. Pernosco is mostly a server app that could use GC. I'm happy with the choice of Rust. > And the amount of complexity in the language just to avoid that is truly staggering. In terms of day-to-day coding this isn't my experience. Once in a while I have tricky ownership problems to resolve, but most of the time I get by just fine without thinking much about the ownership model. In exchange we don't have to think at all about GC tuning or object recycling, we get RAII, we get to use affine types to encode typestates, and we get easy parallelism. I'm happy about this trade. As you can see when I started this thread I am far more concerned about build times than I am about the cognitive overhead of ownership and lifetimes.