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by zozbot234 1422 days ago
> it's pretty easy to get something past the compiler and tweak it until it works

That's just as true of Rust if you use clone(), Rc<> and RefCell<>. You just have to familiarize with a few boilerplate patterns, and the best part is you're only trading off a modicum of performance while preserving safety. But Rust can work quite well as a language for exploratory programming.