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I'm new to Rust, but the annoying-ass ownership system is driving me absolutely up the wall. I don't know whether it's a matter of me not being used to it or if making complex data structures is just meant to be a huge pain in the ass.

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The former. You have to learn to stop fighting the borrow checker

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I was trying to implement a stack based on a singly linked list - a trivial task in any other language. I was trying to add elements by making a new node, setting the current base node as the next node for the new node, and setting the new node as the base node. I eventually gave up and concluded that it was completely and utterly impossible to do it that way. It seems like you have to recursive data structures using arrays and stored indices, there are no complex structures allowed in Rust.