The “beats debugging” part I took it as meaning “it is better than spending that day debugging”. I have fought the ownership rules and lost (replaced reference

The “beats debugging” part I took it as meaning “it is better than spending that day debugging”. I have fought the ownership rules and lost (replaced references by integers to a common vector-ugly stuff, but I was time constrained). But I have seen people spend several weeks debugging a single problem, and that was really soul-crushing.