Comment by dhosek

I think the rust making you aware of what you need to do is a good thing. I have a vague memory of writing C code when I was a teenager where I directly manipulated a string from argv[] doing some concatenation or other and it worked fine until it didn't because I was merrily stomping on memory I didn't own (I was thinking in Pascal terms while writing C code). The whole String vs &str thing in Rust can feel a bit fiddly at times, but it does make you aware of what's happening (and I've found that it has improved my JVM coding as well although I do have to occasionally remind myself that I don't need to worry about borrows and lifetimes).