You make good points. I have some things to add: * Error handling can be made less verbose using the try!{} macro. * The Rc issue was moved to RFC because any s

You make good points. I have some things to add: * Error handling can be made less verbose using the try!{} macro. * The Rc issue was moved to RFC because any such change would require one per the guidelines at [1] [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs