For the casual reader, if you think Rust is a casual way to play with functional programming, you will encounter the lifetimes booby trap. It's almost always b

For the casual reader, if you think Rust is a casual way to play with functional programming, you will encounter the lifetimes booby trap. It's almost always better to 'play' in a language that abstracts everything away except for the problem domain. Not like Rust, which introduces multiple complex language domains to learn before you can play wih your target domain.