> The thing is: Rust comes with all the systems programming overhead, which in my opinion is not a good bargain if you are not, you know, programming systems. Alas, I’m too old to pick up my own garbage.

I struggled with this as well when I first started programming Rust. Until I got some great advice on the rust-users forum one day: just clone.

You don't have to struggle with the borrow checker, lifetimes, or anything else if you don't want to. Just clone everything. It's usually all your Pythons, Gos, and anything else with a GC is doing anyway. Clippy will tell you the easy places you can fix it. And when you get better and more confident, then you'll spot it yourself too.

So just clone, who cares. The RAII is going to clean up after you no matter what.