I admit that this is to some extent memory management that you have to think about. However especially when it comes to concurrency, this is stuff you have to t

I admit that this is to some extent memory management that you have to think about. However especially when it comes to concurrency, this is stuff you have to think about in any language. The difference is just in when you get the error and what kind you get. Do you get errors at runtime or does the compiler complain? I would argue that doing some of this in Python with no language support at all, is in some ways more manual than Rust, where you get at least assistance. Ownership and borrowing in Rust is solving a much bigger problem than what has been traditionally understood as memory management. Put another way: Other languages even with GC only solve memory management partially. Rusts approach has downsides with cyclic data structures, that’s true but how often do you implement those in real world code? Async can indeed be tricky, that requires a bit of time to wrap your brain around but I think it’s getting better.