> got completely thwarted by the borrow checker IMvHO, Rust Ownership and Lifetime rules aren't really that hard to learn. The only trick is that a programmer

> got completely thwarted by the borrow checker IMvHO, Rust Ownership and Lifetime rules aren't really that hard to learn. The only trick is that a programmer cannot learn Rust exclusively by trial-and-error (which programmers love to do), trying dozens of syntax combinations to see what works. A programmer is forced to learn Rust by RTFM (which programmers hate to do), in order to understand how Rust works. That's all there's to it. It's like trying to learn to play the guitar without reading a book on guitar cords, pulling guitar strings individually at random - the music just won't happen for quite a long time, unless you're Mozart. At any rate, one can always forget Rust references (i.e., raw pointers) and use Rust reference-counted smart pointers[1], effectively writing Rust analogously to Swift. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-04-rc.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-04-rc.html