alt Hacker NewsThe borrow checker is definitely a pain, but it stops being such a pain once you design your types around ownership and passing around non-owned pointers or references or indexes.
The borrow checker is definitely a pain, but it stops being such a pain once you design your types around ownership and passing around non-owned pointers or references or indexes.
This. I've found the same, being effective in Rust really requires that you change your way of thinking about your data structures (and code layout). Once I realized that, I was no longer fighting the borrow checker and I've been about to build complex code that more or less worked immediately. As I look back on it, I think what a pain it would have been to write and debug in C, although doing it in C would appear to be "easier".