[slimsag]

I don't remember the source.. but somewhere someone said that the borrow checker would get in the way until you've learned to a certain point, then after that point developers tend to think in terms of the borrow checker by default and it _works for them instead of against them_.

Besides, you're still going to be doing safe memory programming regardless of whatever language you use. (unless you're just saying "writing broken code is easier")

[steveklabnik]

This is consistent with a lot of people's experiences with Rust. Some people haven't even noticed when the mental bit flipped for them, "Oh wait, I just realized I haven't fought the borrow checker in a while..."

Of course, some people still don't like it. Not every language can be to everyone's liking, a plurality of languages is a good thing. Plus, we do have some stuff in the pipeline to increase the number of programs the borrow checker will understand; some people can get frustrated when they want to write a valid program that gets rejected, but this is going to be the case with any kind of static analysis.