[NotCamelCase]

My concern is slightly different; it's the ease of debugging. And I don't mean debugging the code that I (or sb else) wrote, but the ability to freely modify the code to kick some ideas around and see what sticks, etc. which I frequently need to do, given my field.

As an example, consider a pointer to a const object as a function param in C++: I can cast it away in a second and modify it as I go on my experiments.

Any thoughts on this? How much of an extra friction would you say is introduced in Rust?

[resonious]

I would say it's pretty easy to do similar stuff in Rust to skirt the borrow checker. e.g. you can cast a mut ref to a mut ptr, then back to a mut ref, and then you're allowed to have multiple of them.

The problem is Rust (and its community) does a very good job at discouraging things like that, and there are no guides on how to do so (you might get lambasted for writing one. maybe I should try)