The only way to handle lifetimes is: A) Introduce burden on programmer B) Introduce burden on runtime (GC basically) You just get to pick your poison. Do you

The only way to handle lifetimes is: A) Introduce burden on programmer B) Introduce burden on runtime (GC basically) You just get to pick your poison. Do you want the upfront cost in syntax (Rust) or do you want the down the line cost (C/C++).