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"It really puzzles me why smart people want to spend their time satisfying the (compiler errors | warnings | linter) rather than inventing new and useful things."

Over the past fifty years we've realized that even incredibly smart people suck at avoiding the gazillion pitfalls involved in programming. Virtually every professional programming environment these days employs a suite of tools that help ensure we don't make certain classes of avoidable mistakes, and the borrow checker is simply another one of these tools to protect us from ourselves.

Am I to assume you don't turn on any warnings or linters in any of your projects?