[csomar]

You can Arc<Mutex<T>> your way out of ownership/borrowing. At some point, you'll start to see your program as just data (and functional programming will make sense as the only way to program) moving around. I think it's an under-rated way to get started (I started that way) and at some point a bulb will light up and you'll start seeing programming as data moving around and you'll care about ownership/borrowing at the foundational/prototype level.