Just wanted to say that Rust may look strange early on but very, very quickly becomes entirely natural, so don't let that be the reason why you haven't learned it is my unsolicited input
For what it's worth, I use Rust daily and I don't really care about memory issue. It's nice that it comes with the package, but it's not why I do it. Believe it or not, the borrow checker is first and foremost why I enjoy writing Rust. It's such a brilliant idea I don't understand why it's not more widely used. A helpful compiler and a good (if imperfect) crate ecosystem are probably 2nd and 3rd.