Comment by wiz21c

it is not straightforward in rust because the linked list is inherently tricky to implement correctly. Rust makes that very apparent (and, yeah, a bit too apparent).

I know, a linked list is not exactly super complex and rust makes that a bit tough. But the realisation one must have is this: building a linked list will break some key assumptions about memory safety, so trying to force that into rust is just not gonna make it.

Problem is I guess that for several of us, we have forgotten about memory safety and it's a bit painful to have that remembered to us by a compiler :-)