Rust is in this weird place, because it needs to be palatable to C/C++ programmers. C has pointers and a vague notion of their lifetimes, but barely any type sy

Rust is in this weird place, because it needs to be palatable to C/C++ programmers. C has pointers and a vague notion of their lifetimes, but barely any type system to speak of. That's the lens through which Rust needs to present the problem.