Rust and the Blub Paradox
For a C++ developer, Rust introduces a lot of seemingly arbitrary rules and constraints on how data can be managed, moved around and referenced. In order to develop things that employ a lot of composing, one has to either make the code nigh unreadable with tons of unnecessary chaining (which is unavoidable, since simple dereferencing and assigning a value of a field in a structure to a variable means the structure is now borrowed and you can&#x27;t reference the field nor the structure until the variable goes out of scope; please, for the love of all that is holy, prove me wrong!) or the entire data model has to be rethought with those rules in mind. Not sure about others, but I sure as hell still have a lot of trouble wrapping my head around boxes, mutability and lifetimes; maybe I&#x27;m making some fundamentally flawed assumptions trying to draw similarities between C++ and Rust, but those issues are showstoppers for me for now.