[shpongled]

Definitely agree - when I say slightly slower I'm mostly referring to the happy-path/basic uses (reading files, using hashmaps, web servers, etc).

There are definitely aspects of Rust that are much more complex (typically with a tradeoff of more expressiveness, but not always), but at least in my experience, these are usually areas where you can't easily express the same thing in Python. I think many times people forget that you can frequently `clone` your way out of many issues if you are trying to move fast.

And of course areas where I still only use python: manipulating tabular data, making graphs, quick scripts for interacting with APIs etc.