[ithkuil]

Analogies often leak.

1. In real life I can borrow a toy from you and while I have that toy in my hands, the owner can exchange ownership with somebody else, while the object is borrowed by me. I.e. in real life the borrowing is orthogonal to ownership. In rust you can't do that.

2. Borrowing a toy is more akin to how mutable references work in rust. Immutable references allow multiple people to play with the same toy simultaneously, provided they don't change it.

Analogies are just analogies