> There is no simpler language inside Rust that has the same safety guarantees I’d argue there is: there’s reference counting. Rather than using references and

> There is no simpler language inside Rust that has the same safety guarantees I’d argue there is: there’s reference counting. Rather than using references and fussing with lifetimes you could sprinkle Rc<> wherever it’s necessary. You’d take a performance hit but the code would be simpler to write.