If you're anything like me, rust was a bit difficult at first due to ownership, lifetimes, traits, and the borrow checker. At some point though, things finally just clicked in my head and now I have the understanding I needed and my difficulties went away. After that point, I began writing safer code in every language because I was using the same ideas that rustc brute forced into my brain. It took probably a few weeks or so before I got it. Now I rarely have (those) issues, and when I do it's probably because I'm trying to do something weird or I was drinking and missed a place where I obviously should have used .clone() or maybe a reference. I'm just a hobby coder though, perhaps at a beginner-intermediate level with a background of writing unsafe python and c. Your mileage may vary.
I guess it just doesn't solve problems for me yet. The problems Rust solves I don't run into. Even with big Java apps with lots of concurrency and crap I hardly shoot myself in the foot. Oh well.
Seems to me that if rust doesn't solve problems you have any better than the other languages at your disposal, it might not be the best choice to solve those problems for you. That is very reasonable to me.
Edit - it's just funny because it always happens. Say anything against Rust - get downvoted. It kind of reminds me of the really hardcore Linux community.
