<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://unstable.systems/@demize" class="u-url mention">@<span>demize</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tef" class="u-url mention">@<span>tef</span></a></span> well it sounds like the rust things you work on do not require or benefit much from using long-lived (more than one block or even statement) borrowed pointers</p><p>in this case I would simply not use them</p><p>it's a slight performance hit but in many cases nobody cares, and it almost completely frees you from the "oh, the compiler says I can't have nice things" problem you're referring to here</p>