[jordwest]

I'm still in the early days of learning Rust, but from what I've seen so far I agree with that feeling of having a better mental model of the program. At first the language and syntax seemed overwhelming, but slowly its all coming together and what I thought was verbose syntax turns out to be incredibly helpful in terms of forcing me to think things through.

Several times now when caught out by the borrow checker, I've wondered, wow, how do other languages get away with allowing a situation like this.

This video series by the author of Rayon (and Rust core dev) was what first hooked me and made the syntax a lot more understandable: http://intorust.com/