lqd has been doing awesome work driving progress on polonius. He’s authoring an update for Inside Rust, but the TL;DR is that, with his latest PR, we’ve reimplemented the traditional Rust borrow checker in a more polonius-like style. We are working to iron out the last few performance hiccups and thinking about replacing the existing borrow checker with this new re-implementation, which is effectively a no-op from a user’s perspective (including from a performance perspective). This blo...