What would you say if I told you that it was possible to (a) eliminate a lot of “inter-method borrow conflicts” without introducing something like view types and (b) make pinning easier even than boats’s pinned places proposal, all without needing pinned fields or even a pinned keyword? You’d probably say “Sounds great… what’s the catch?” The catch it requires us to change Rust’s fundamental assumption that, given x: &mut T, you can always overwrite *x by doing *x = /* new v...
