> I'd rather categorize handwaving of Rusts additional complexities by their community as silly. I believe what steveklabnik meant, was that all this extra com

> I'd rather categorize handwaving of Rusts additional complexities by their community as silly. I believe what steveklabnik meant, was that all this extra complexity (the borrow checker) already exists in the language for other reasons. It's not an additional cost to the compiler or the developer when using the reference-counted types (Rc or Arc).