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I want to like Rust, and in the abstract I do, but every time I dive in the concepts have too much complexity for me to get going, and this post reinforces that.

It's not that I couldn't eventually grok Rust, it's that I don't have time to given that it's not part of my day job. I really hope that Rust leads to some of the same features being expressed in a more intuitive way by a subsequent language.

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I wonder how much of this is required to use rust effectively. A lot of languages have fairly tricky semantics and type systems, and most developers don't fully understand them. C++ is obviously a big language, but even C has things like volatile pointers and pointer aliasing and numerical type promotion.

And if you don't understand non-lexical lifetimes, I think that's OK. You can just be more explicit about the lifetimes and it will still work. And reading someone else's code should still make sense.

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