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I can hate something for any reason I wish. They are my feelings that I wield. Who are you to tell me what I can and cannot feel?

You certainly can, though I submit that's a hollow emotion at best.

Sure, but you can think you hate it, and practically speaking what's the difference?

Of course you can. In fact, I think it’s often much easier to hate something when you don’t understand it fully.

But in this case, the GP was describing their experience programming with the borrow checker as a new rust programmer. Hatred is an emotion. It’s not up to you or me to decide if that feeling is present in someone else’s brain.

I would classify that emotion as anger or frustration. Hatred is something deeper, and I don't think you can be there without deep understanding of what you're hating.

But it's ultimately whatever.