> As a hobby software engineer who mostly writes ETL jobs in Python the biggest selling point of Rust is Cargo. I usually use a lot of .clone() in my code and most of my fields are Strings which would make a seasoned Rust/C++ laugh at the code. [...] Yes, the compilation is an extra step, but I would have that trade every single time for extra safety and reliability.
It sounds like you'd be better off with higher-level Haskell for these tasks.
It sounds like you'd be better off with higher-level Haskell for these tasks.