Any time I need to explicitly give a lifetime in a struct I use an Rc or some other container. I’ve been using rust casually for years and every time I try to appease the compiler with lifetimes I realize it’s not worth my time. If someone has a very ELI5 resource that will make me understand when and why to do this I’d appreciate it.
IMO this is something that should just be handled by extra runtime code or a magically smarter compiler. Lifetime management feels like something that matters in a microcontroller or hyper-optimized setting, but never when I’m executing code on Apple Silicon for a random application. And yet the language makes simple GC ergonomically painful. I love the language but don’t really need all of that performance. I would gladly take a 1% hit to increment reference counts.
IMO this is something that should just be handled by extra runtime code or a magically smarter compiler. Lifetime management feels like something that matters in a microcontroller or hyper-optimized setting, but never when I’m executing code on Apple Silicon for a random application. And yet the language makes simple GC ergonomically painful. I love the language but don’t really need all of that performance. I would gladly take a 1% hit to increment reference counts.