[wudangmonk]

I know nothing about rust but if you are struggling against the borrow checker because you want to implement something like linked lists or anything it doesn't want you the obvious solution is to allocate all your memory upfront and create your own allocator where you pass around indexes and thus bypass the borrow checker completely. I think this is what the author does? not really clear as he seemed to be constantly struggling with the language even after that.

I gotta say its not selling me on rust if bypassing the borrow checker with my own allocations still results in having to jump through so many hoops and struggle against the language.