I am fine with C++ memory safety if I am mostly working with RAII and explicit move semantics when needed (it is not perfect, but it will get us through the night). However, fighting the borrow checker drastically _decreases_ my quality of life, and I couldn’t find the way to get myself to free flowing code as I had in other languages.

Interestingly, I have the same feeling when trying to write something with Vulkan — the amount of ceremony and boilerplate before you even get to the first triangle is a huge barrier for my productivity. I want something more immediate.