[pornel]

Indeed, overuse of lifetimes is a common novice mistake. In most real-world programs lifetime annotations are very rarely needed.

The worst disaster of nonsensical <'a> exploding everywhere comes from novices trying to use Rust's references to store objects "by reference" in a struct, without understanding that in Rust references have a completely opposite meaning that forbids storing the data.

[samuelec]

Still that you can't just avoid to explain lifetimes. There is a lot of code out there witch uses lifetimes