[jnordwick]

Slow down there turbo. Nobody said anything about your skill (although PhD doesn't particularly mean a talented developer - some of the worst code ive seen come from cs phds where some only understand the highest polynomial in big-o but forget the other factors). And nobody cares a cent about you getting whatever award from moz.

A said anything about optimizing in inappropriate areas (honestly, what did you get that from). This entire thread started because somebody didn't understand why people often user linked list as an example of something difficult in rust.

> Of course I create data structures, but almost always by combining hashtables, arrays and smart pointers and occasionally something more exotic from a library.

But that does scream "I don't really do a lot of performance oriented work". That you can somehow cobble together an apple out of a banana and a cat by probably using a metric ton of boxes and refcounts (that are just used to get around the borrow checker) doesn't surprise me if you are willing to make the readability and performance sacrifices.