> It's hard to make a definitive argument one way or the other because the guarantees Rust makes come at a cost of compilation speed I don't think this is actu

> It's hard to make a definitive argument one way or the other because the guarantees Rust makes come at a cost of compilation speed I don't think this is actually true. The compiler is slow but not due to memory safety; the 'cargo check' command is rather quick and the compiler itself doesn't seem to spend a lot of time in the frontend, most of the time in spent in the backend, past the borrow checking phrase.