[drdaeman]

It sure can, but you can't be as sloppy as you can be with Ruby, Python or JavaScript or Go.

It's a high-level language, it just has its own rules that encourage correctness and prohibit sloppiness (which is a de-facto standard in the webdev industry, especially when prototyping rapidly by throwing shit at the wall and then letting whatever stuck live in production until it's no longer manageable).

For better or worse, Rust simply doesn't forgive a lot of things that are easy to do elsewhere, like not caring about less probable scenarios.

And, again, for better or worse, you also have to satisfy the borrow checker, where in other languages there's simply no such thing. Which is sometimes easy as calling clone() (not always a good idea), but sometimes can be quite a headache thinking about value lifetimes and how you just can't have something somewhere else (which can be super subtle so you wouldn't normally think about it in other languages with GC).