[shortstuffsushi]

Wouldn't the concept of borrowing avoid that issue in Rust though?

[pcwalton]

Actually, atomics and locks (which are fully supported) are what avoid that issue in Rust. You can't borrow across multiple threads.

[Jweb_Guru]

You can now with scoped threads, provided that you don't require mutation.

[FreeFull]

Actually, it's possible to share a &mut into a scoped threat too, and perform mutation through it. It's safe because the &mut only ever exists in one place at a time.