> Developers may spend more mental energy wrestling with the compiler to satisfy memory safety constraints, leaving them with less bandwidth to focus on the act

> Developers may spend more mental energy wrestling with the compiler to satisfy memory safety constraints, leaving them with less bandwidth to focus on the actual problem their program is meant to solve. Then maybe Rust was the wrong language for the problem to begin with? Or they haven't learned and understood the borrow checker yet? I mean a similar argument can be made against any language. "The great freedom of C may make developers spend more time debugging all the segfaults they produce..."