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> You can't be that lazy, or you would use a language that doesn't force you to do memory management.

Eh, depending on what you're building you don't do much if any memory management in Rust. You just declare what you want and it's automatically released at the end of scope.

Yes I know the borrow checker. With experience it stops getting in the way while catching the occasional bug.

And no, building linked lists or recursive data structures are edge cases that you don't need to develop for most applications.



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