I don't think the ownership model, borrowing, references etc are actually particularly difficult. They're well explained in "The Book", even better so in Jim Bl

I don't think the ownership model, borrowing, references etc are actually particularly difficult. They're well explained in "The Book", even better so in Jim Blandy's "Programming Rust", and at least in principle can be got over in an afternoon. Admittedly it can all knotty with a lot of closures and async etc, but it's certainly not the source of the difficulties for me.