[mullr]

> Isn't part of the point of Rust that you don't manage memory yourself, and rather that the compiler is smart enough to manage it for you?

For trivial cases, kind of. But once you start to do anything remotely sophisticated, no. Everything you do in Rust is checked w.r.t. memory management, but you still need to make many choices about it. All the stuff about lifetimes, borrowing, etc: that's memory management. The compiler's checking it for you, but you still need to design stuff sanely, with memory management (and the checking thereof) in mind. It's easy to back yourself into a corner if you ignore this.