if you're actually interested in learning different perspectives from people who have done significant work in the field and you're willing to stomach someone who I have to presume is one of these "large fragile egos" or whatever other vague terms you want to use about vague people vaguely (this passive-aggression is rather unbecoming), I personally found this comment, and the rest of the thread, to be very enlightening with regards to how I think about memory management in video game development and why rust's lifetimes maybe aren't the best solution for the problem domain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26443768#26451692 (specifically the numbered list of memory usage patterns and the ensuing discussion about them)