@Suiseiseki @SuperDicq there are also plenty of memory safe languages that don't overcomplicate things like Rust does. Pascal, Oberon, and Ada are all compiled languages with strong and static typing for all who demand strict control over every detail, and for people who prefer dynamic (but still fairly strict) typing and don't mind or even prefer the compiler doing some optimisations on their part, there's Common Lisp and Scheme (among others in both categories)

the issue with Rust is it took an already solved problem, pretended no one had ever solved it before, then made something that looks like a solution but it's so needlessly complicated you can't even tell if it actually solves the problem or not anymore