I was surprised to have to scroll this far to see someone bring up that the comparison point seems to be Python... I mean, I have absolutely no difficulty believing the statement

> For every time I experience a bug in Python that would have been prevented in Rust by its borrowchecker, I experience maybe twenty borrowchecker issues.

Now, if you replace "Python" with C or C++, my guess is the ratio at _least_ equalizes if not flips entirely