Hey #rustlang twitter, what was your 'aha!' moment when learning Rust?
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Realizing I was *already* dealing with ownership and borrowing throughout my C code; Rust just does it all for me. Staring at libgit2's API and Python's API, full of statements like "free this when done with it" vs "returns a pointer to memory owned by another object, don't free"
Even in managed languages, it gives you a language to communicate mutability that just wasn't there before. Not to mention that lifetimes affect more than freeing memory (e.g. python returns a file object -- who should close it?)
