I have written a lot of Rust, and I am describing something different. Rust lets you write code that cares a lot about memory (with lifetimes etc.) with either

I have written a lot of Rust, and I am describing something different. Rust lets you write code that cares a lot about memory (with lifetimes etc.) with either compiler assistance or without. What I am describing is code that doesn't much care about memory and would be happy to sacrifice performance for it.