I'm also relatively new to Rust, just about to ship my first ever project written with it. Borrow checker errors are definitely tricky. In my experience, it usu

I'm also relatively new to Rust, just about to ship my first ever project written with it. Borrow checker errors are definitely tricky. In my experience, it usually indicates that you've done something "the wrong way," which means you need to re-think it and architect it somehow else. There's often not a quick fix (unless you just made a typo or something, of course). For example, think about who owns the data in question, why it's trying to be stored in two places at once, and how you can re-arrange your data structures or code flow to avoid that condition. It gets harder to understand once lifetimes get involved, I still have to dig into the book to understand the ins & outs of that, and its syntax. Once you get the hang of writing code in a Rust-friendly manner, borrow checker errors mostly just don't happen, because you wrote your code "the right way" to begin with. I hope I described that well. It's a fascinating language, and now that I'm on the far side of the learning curve, I find it very pleasant to use. I urge you not to give up. (Have you read through and written, built, and played with the examples in the book? I found it extremely helpful to follow the exercises, and intentionally break them, to test my understanding. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ )