Rust community might be phlegm but the language itself should be yellow bile, while c++ should be phlegm.

IMO

Equality in rust is value equality per default, that’s what these traits are for. If you want to check pointer equality you’d use the std::ptr::eq function to check if two pointers are equal, which is rather rare in practice. You can also implement the PartialEq trait yourself if you need custom equality checks.