[armSixtyFour]

This was one of the more confusing parts of Rust when I first started using it. I find that I don't necessarily run into it a lot. After a while you sort of change how you organize your code and you find that you're not fighting strings or the borrow checker very often. I'm not really sure how I got to that point however, it's more just practice than anything else.

[seoaeu]

Yeah, in some ways it is kind of weird how much discussion there is about Rust's borrow checker compared to how much time practitioners actually spend dealing with it. I see less about string handling (this post being an exception) but that is also basically a non-issue once you get the hang of it.

[brundolf]

Exactly. It's not actually hard once it clicks, but I think a certain subset of newcomers spend lots of time being frustrated with the fact that their understanding doesn't seem to work, when they could just be given the key bits of information and be able to move forward with things making sense. That was the motive of this post :)