Yep! See my comment about the lifetimes, though, you may not actually write them out in the real code, but conceptually, this is Rust's bread and butter.

I'm learning Rust for the first time and found that The Rust Book does a pretty good job of covering language concepts. I actually just finished reading the section on lifetimes last night: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch10-03-lifetime-syntax.html

My experience so far with Rust has been a huge reduction in mental burden/bookkeeping compared to when I write modern C++.