The parent comment insinuated that it was used more than 1% of the time; which also mirrored my (brief) time using Rust. I spent long periods of time as a begin

The parent comment insinuated that it was used more than 1% of the time; which also mirrored my (brief) time using Rust. I spent long periods of time as a beginner trying to get a good program structure past the borrow-checker only to discard the work, when I realized that certain problems introduced different ownership constraints. Of course, part of that is due to the fact I haven’t spent a prolonged period of time in Rust. I imagine that it would get better with time; hence I was surprised to hear an opinion that used ~Rc~ by default. > To me this framing sounds like "why do I need seat belts, if I fall of a cliff it won't do any good!" I’m sorry that that’s how you read my comment — the languages I tend to use are much higher-level than Rust, like Haskell and Lisp, and I constantly found myself having to restructure my code to deal with memory-management. In particular, I found closures and futures difficult to work with — compared to a higher-level GC language. This experience may or may not be typical; I have few data-points to draw on after all!