On: I stopped everything and started writing C again

[phicoh]

If you come from C to Rust to basically have to rewire your brain. There are some corner cases that are wrong in Rust, but mostly you have to get used to a completely new way of thinking about object lifetimes and references to objects.

[baq → phicoh]

...and then you come back to your C code and think 'how could I not think of these things'.

[phicoh → baq]

Though one thing that makes Rust quite different from C is move semantics.