In my limited experience the compile speed issues are often overblown. The biggest rust project i compile regularly is deno. It doesn’t feel that slow. Cargo i

In my limited experience the compile speed issues are often overblown. The biggest rust project i compile regularly is deno. It doesn’t feel that slow. Cargo is great but it’s not continued to evolve fast enough. For example, there’s not enough defence against supply chain attacks yet. >> Rust’s price for improved control is the curse of choice The annoying unstated side effect of this is that on average, developers will choose the easiest option. E.g. quite a few blogs and tutorials wastefully use clone because it’s easier than wrangling with lifetimes (which admittedly have an developer-unfriendly habit of being quite virulent through your code) - or whatever other approach you fancy to avoid pointless copying. They do it just to get around the borrow checker. You don’t need to be processing that many strings with this approach before Python’s (lack of) speed is giving you a run for your money.