[eatfish]

Agreed. My experiments with rust have been uphill because I've been fighting with lifetimes, ownership and borrowing.

For the most part I failed to see that I -needed- unsafe code in some situations. Instead I was trying (failing) to annotate my code to ridiculous levels with lifetimes. It was really frustrating.

I don't think the current docs do a great job of putting unsafe in a suitable perspective. It's somewhat downplayed IMO.

Still, I've learned now and it's been pretty pleasant after that.

FWIW I've been doing c++ for maybe 18 years, writing device drivers, game engines, compiler development. I thought rust was made for me but it's been tough, much more so than any other language except maybe SML!