[Osiris]

I’ve been learning rust and I spend the vast majority of my time dealing with lifetimes and borrow checking. Common ways in used to doing things simply don’t work in rust and a lot of effort has to go into keeping track of how and where data is used.

I’ve worked in OOP languages, functional languages, and dynamic languages but all of them were essentially garbage collected, so having to keep track in my head of how data ownership is managed is a big learning curve.

[imron]

As a c++ programmer, one of the great things about rust is that I no longer have to keep track of data ownership and management in head.

I can outsource this to the compiler and if I get it wrong the program won’t compile.

In c++ you still need to do all the same tracking and management if you want safe and correct programs, but you don’t get nearly as much help from the compiler if you make a mistake.

[FpUser]

I think this is largely overblown if one uses modern C++. One of the things I do is stateful multi-threaded business servers and frankly comparatively to the overall project this "data ownership maintenance" is small to the point of being practically absent.