I have been writing Rust code for 3.5 years. I never fight the borrow checker. The ownership rules are a blessing, when ever the compiler yells at me, then I know I am doing something that would have caused a seg fault i. C. It took a little while to get used to Rusts syntax, but once I got it, it was the best programming language I have ever used. It is just so beautiful how it enables multi threading and ensures that all errors are handled.

I'm a C programmer who has tried to move to other languages, but I keep coming back to C for a few different reasons. It's a small language and I can keep it in my head along with much of the standard library and that's very useful. I've learned where to step to avoid most of the UB pitfalls and I've learned to simplify memory management as much as possible to avoid lifetime and ownership pitfalls. I do realize that this doesn't get rid of bugs completely, though.

Also, I started programming on a TRS-80 color computer with cassette tape storage and it still feels crazy to just do stuff and it allocates somewher and you have little control over what happens and some other process runs in the background that tries to clean up after you. I bounce off of languages (for hobby projects) with such a large list of features and with executable sizes that are so huge. I can't help it.