[whytevuhuni]

That might be true. In my case, it is precisely because I do play a lot with my code, doing big 2-day refactors sometimes too. With Rust, when it finally compiles, it very often tends to run without crashing, and often correctly too, saving me a lot of debugging.

But it's also because of all the things I'm forced to fix while implementing or refactoring, that I would've been convinced were correct. And I was proven wrong by the compiler, so, many, times, that I've lost all confidence in my own ability to do it correctly without this kind of help. It helped me out of my naivety that "C is simple".