> You seem to want rust to decide for itself whether to borrow or own the contents, but that way lies madness… Most of what Rust does already feels like madnes

> You seem to want rust to decide for itself whether to borrow or own the contents, but that way lies madness… Most of what Rust does already feels like madness, like the concept of implicit moves, etc., but I understand your point. I don't think the reasoning really makes sense in terms of actual logic, but as I wrote in another comment: It's possible that I've misunderstood the sales pitch of Rust trying to be GC-less GCd language. > For me, move-semantics-by-default is the key idea that rust got right, and it’s a very simple concept. It’s not intuitive, but it’s the key idea behind all of rust’s benefits for memory management and preventing concurrency bugs. “Learn one simple but non-intuitive thing and you get these huge benefits” is a tradeoff I’m very much willing to make, personally. I can respect that and seen this way (where we accept that we're simply going to have unintuitive and incorrect rejections of programs) it does make a lot more sense.