> Maybe lifetimes/borrow checking syntax got invisible after a while to you. I just did a quick scan, in a couple thousand lines of Rust I see two, maybe three

> Maybe lifetimes/borrow checking syntax got invisible after a while to you. I just did a quick scan, in a couple thousand lines of Rust I see two, maybe three lifetime annotations. Nah, not a huge contributor to language verbosity. Most Rust folk seem to work with the compiler's notion of what lifetimes should be, and everything's implicit.