[pseudonymcoward]

In general I prefer languages to be small and simple - like Go and C. This doesn't seem to be a design goal for Rust, which puts me off. Some specifics:

Trying to do anything non-trivial with ownership/lifetimes/borrowing always ends up in a tangle, fighting with the compiler.

Everything in the stdlib seems to have a giant api with pages and pages of functions. Example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html Scrolling down through those methods is overwhelming.

The overhead imposed by the goal of maximising safety is big, and not that important to me (as I'm not writing Very Important Crypto code or whatever, I don't find it hard to write good enough code for my purposes in C).

[star-castle]

Click the [-] at the top right of that doc page. You won't find it so overwhelming.

[julienfr112]

Why not Ctrl-F instead of scrolling ?