The thing is if you don't want to fight the borrow checker you can use RefCell and Arc/Rc. People are discouraged because then you lose a lot of architectural a

The thing is if you don't want to fight the borrow checker you can use RefCell and Arc/Rc. People are discouraged because then you lose a lot of architectural advantages that come with Rust but nothing is keeping you from writing unsafe{} and RefCell in the places where you know things are safe but can't formulate something that Rust understands.