That is also not shared by everyone. If you have written enough Rust to have internalized designing for the borrow checker, you don't have to spend much time in

That is also not shared by everyone. If you have written enough Rust to have internalized designing for the borrow checker, you don't have to spend much time in a design phase. The only time I find I have to "fight the compiler" is when I write concurrent code, and you can sidestep a lot of issues by starting with immutable data and message passing through channels as a primitive. It's a style you have to get used to, but once you build up a mental library of patterns you can reasonably be as fast in Rust as you are in Python.