[loeg]

> [Rust] makes the easy stuff hard.

I totally disagree with that claim. The easy thing to do is not use unsafe Rust. You can use stringly-typed datastructures with lots of refcounting or copying, just like Perl, without ever venturing into unsafe Rust.

> Writing basic data structures isn't a niche, esoteric edge case. There may be a crate that "solves" what you're trying to do. But does it rely on the std---(i.e., is it unusable for systems programming)?

In what world is Perl suitable for systems where possible memory allocation is a problem?