The sooner you find bugs, the less time/effort/money you spend in the maintenance bit of the SDLC fixing them. Rust's borrow checker actually saves you time by

The sooner you find bugs, the less time/effort/money you spend in the maintenance bit of the SDLC fixing them. Rust's borrow checker actually saves you time by flagging up memory bugs upfront, the same way a statically typed language's type checker saves you time by flagging up type bugs upfront.