When you've gotten to the point of saying, "well, it's ok to panic in example code" you've already lost the game. Novice programmers learn from example code, an

When you've gotten to the point of saying, "well, it's ok to panic in example code" you've already lost the game. Novice programmers learn from example code, and novice programmers are an order of magnitude more common than experienced ones. A programming ecosystem that depends on 9 out of every 10 people being able to intuit that which the other 1 understands is not an ecosystem that's going to produce good code. Rust is a minefield of bear traps laid by experts, and I fear for the future of our industry if Go and Java programmers are required by some quirk of network effects or first mover advantage or whatever to starting programming (badly) in Rust.