[kstrauser]

I think it destroys productivity if and only if you don’t roll with it and do things the Rusty way. If you write code with its idioms, it can be a huge productivity boost. Specifically, I can concentrate on fixing logic errors in my code instead of resource bookkeeping. When I refactor something, I know I didn’t accidentally forget to move alloc/free to the appropriate places for the new code: if my changes broke something, it’ll tell me.