I really appreciate the idea of a Rust-like borrow-checker, but I think Rust is too complicated. Wouldn't it be possible for someone to make a smaller language like C, but with a borrow-checker? It seems that most of the aversion to Rust is the sum of its complexity.
Excellent, that's precisely the thing I was looking for! Thank you! I see that there are some tricky issues that would have to be solved with regards to ergonomy, even with an imagined subset of Rust.
