Um, lifetimes are not a made up concept of rust to be in your way. It helps you understand issues that would be real and undetected in your C app. Your C app w

Um, lifetimes are not a made up concept of rust to be in your way. It helps you understand issues that would be real and undetected in your C app. Your C app would work by happy accident and you would not notice until later when data is corrupted in another part of your program. This is the rest of us wanted to leave C/C++.