You already have to think like this when you use smart pointers in C++! But C++ compilers don't help you with that! The Rust compiler does. Using Rust, you get surprised how often you get ownership wrong, because the compiler tells you every time. The same analogous code in C++ will still be wrong, but you wouldn't know, since the compiler tells you zilch.

hello sanxiyn! (fyi all, sanxiyn is one of the rust compiler developers, unless i'm mixing up names :) )

(There are quite a few of us in this thread, fwiw: brson and pcwalton are Mozilla employees working on Rust and Servo; sanxiyn, bjz_, steveklabnik and I are volunteers, just from the handles I recognise.)

sanxiyn is actually a Samsung employee, and on their behalf has contributed to Rust in the past. IIRC he's not currently employed to work on Rust, though he's still an active community member.