Ignas KielaPeople calling Rust a "general purpose language" have definitely drank way too much of it's kool-aid
Rust has one, singular main purpose - speed
Everything else (including safety!) is secondary to speed
General purpose programming sometimes has a need to be slow
Rust rejects the slow, violently, building as many barriers to it as possible
Rust rejects the slow, violently, building as many barriers to it as possible
Any sufficiently complicated Rust program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half a object oriented garbage collector.