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>Well this is true for all languages!

That is unfortunately not true enough.

Rust has a brilliant solution for some really burdensome issues that C++ developers have. A lot of C++ code tends to make assumptions about ownership and lifetimes that are not formally spelled out anywhere in the code. It's all over the place, it increases cognitive load, it makes the code brittle and less modular than it could be. Rust fixes that without negatively affecting performance whereas all C++ workarounds like shared_ptr and defensive copying are incomplete and/or have a negative performance impact.

But Rust also insists on enforcing its ownership rules between variables within the local scope where it doesn't help much and feels needlessly restrictive and convoluted. I can't say I know Rust well enough to tell whether working under these restrictions can become second nature and stop being a burden.

Also, users of garbage collected languages don't have many of the ownership and lifetime issues that C++ developers are forced to think about. Especially where objects are immutable, ownership is not a concern at all.

So I think Rust is an answer to one question: How can I have detailed control over resources like in C++ without inheriting all the hazards of C++ as well.