From what I have observed, most advanced Rust authors don't bother with lifetimes at all. Every pointer becomes an integer index into some slice and they mostly

From what I have observed, most advanced Rust authors don't bother with lifetimes at all. Every pointer becomes an integer index into some slice and they mostly skip the lifetime/borrow checking. Lifetime are only kept on the few, easy-to-reason about cases. Kind of funny actually.