Note that Servo has a GC (the spidermonkey one) since it deals with a managed DOM, so it is an atypical example. Most Rust code I've seen has far less RefCell u

Note that Servo has a GC (the spidermonkey one) since it deals with a managed DOM, so it is an atypical example. Most Rust code I've seen has far less RefCell usage; but yes, RefCell is pretty idiomatic and the boilerplate is minimal.