I agree, a memory managed language will always beat the borrow checker in expressiveness, ergonomics, simplicity, maintainability. Unless you're writing system-

I agree, a memory managed language will always beat the borrow checker in expressiveness, ergonomics, simplicity, maintainability. Unless you're writing system-level or low-latency apps I don't see the benefit to Rust. If you need better-than-python performance there are many good memory-managed LLVM or JVM/.Net options available.