Unfortunately I haven't had the same experience as you. Even for a simple program I've had to think about passing by value/reference, lifetime annotations, stat

Unfortunately I haven't had the same experience as you. Even for a simple program I've had to think about passing by value/reference, lifetime annotations, static lifetimes, etc. That's not to say I don't like Rust; I hope it takes over the world that C/C++ have a grip on.