One option the author didn't mention is that threads can join with a value, so instead of needing scope it could have looked like (on my phone so syntax is prob

One option the author didn't mention is that threads can join with a value, so instead of needing scope it could have looked like (on my phone so syntax is probably not quite right): let user = todo!(); let handle: JoinHandle<User> = spawn(move || { // do stuff with user // hand back user user }); // wait for thread to stop and retake ownership of user let user = handle.join(); I used this recently to remove locking in a worker thread and it was a big performance boost, and made the code nicer -- win/win.