I had this happen with Rust. My Rust code as a beginner had a bunch of smells like unnecessary copies, overly verbose code, etc. But in the Maslow hierarchy of

I had this happen with Rust. My Rust code as a beginner had a bunch of smells like unnecessary copies, overly verbose code, etc. But in the Maslow hierarchy of programming, working code is a prerequisite for idiomatic code. Better to write some bad, working code and slowly turn it into idiomatic, working code.