Isn't rust too difficult to be widely adopted?

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@vitalyd

I suppose the closest analog to erasing lifetimes is to use owned objects instead, either passing things by value or putting them behind a pointer.

Exactly. This is what I have been alluding to above. Using this "subset" of Rust is a breeze. I also commented on explicit lifetimes eventually leading to self-referential structs in the other thread.