Yeah; a simpler language would also be easier to learn. Rust is experimenting with an awful lot of new ideas. I imagine rust's successor (whenever that happens)

Yeah; a simpler language would also be easier to learn. Rust is experimenting with an awful lot of new ideas. I imagine rust's successor (whenever that happens) will take the best ideas from rust - including the best design for a borrow checker - and build a much simpler language around that. Rust is the first language in its category. It won't be the best language we ever make in that category.