> I agree that Rust is a large language, but I think you're overstating the complexity: it's been my experience that you don't need to know all (or even most) o

> I agree that Rust is a large language, but I think you're overstating the complexity: it's been my experience that you don't need to know all (or even most) of the "clever" stuff to write large, performant Rust programs. The same could equally well be said for, say, scala. In my experience though, you always pay one way or another for the unneeded and unwanted features in a language. Unreasonable compile times that kill joy and productivity are just one of the ways.