Suggest an alternative syntax that would be less confusing? The & symbol is familiar to many people because it has similar meaning in C,C++, Go, and other lang

Suggest an alternative syntax that would be less confusing? The & symbol is familiar to many people because it has similar meaning in C,C++, Go, and other languages. Rust gets the unique mix of safety and performance by making you have to deal with memory, that is fundamentally more complicated.