The Rust compiler provides a number of conveniences that make life easier for its users. It is good to know what these are, to avoid being mystified by what's going on under the hood... the less magical thinking we have of the world, the better. Example of these conveniences: lifetime elisions type inference syntactic sugar implicit dereferencing type coercions hidden code (e.g. the prelude) With the help of examples, this talk is going to compare code with and without these conveniences.