[lenkite]

Yes, these are bad things. The extreme burden imposed by lifetimes and the prevention of easy refactoring for changes causes spectacular design bloat via workarounds and safety circumvention mechanisms which are unique to Rust projects. Its a special and necessary Rust skill.

[baq]

You only need to circumvent safety if you have it...

You can choose to have it in runtime. You don't get that choice pretty much anywhere else. If you don't want to make that choice in a granular way as rust allows, pick a language from the other two groups.