Stop caring about writing .clone() until you feel comfortable enough to care. The biggest thing I see people go crazy with in Rust is trying to avoid cloning t

Stop caring about writing .clone() until you feel comfortable enough to care. The biggest thing I see people go crazy with in Rust is trying to avoid cloning things. I've watched it block people from progressing in the language. Yes, you ultimately don't want to clone everything everywhere, but getting something built in Rust and then iterating backwards is often a better way to learn the language than trying to be "correct" from the start. Cloning often removes any need to deal with lifetime signatures or what-have-you. If you're bothered by a full clone, grab Rc/Arc and use that trade-off in the beginning - it's not going to kill you. These changes make the syntax of the language fairly comparable to other languages. tl;dr: .clone() things, measure if it's a problem, and then work backwards to the state you feel that the language/borrow-checker/whatever is pushing you towards.