Writing Pythonic Rust
This article demonstrates well something I&#x27;ve seen a lot with people coming from GC languages getting into Rust: they just write the code the way they&#x27;re used to and work around the borrow checker by slapping `Arc&lt;Mutex&lt;_&gt;&gt;` all over the place.<p>Then that leads to frustration and wondering why you even got rid of the GC in the first place if you end up with a crappier non-transparent reference-counted garbage collection with all these Arc&#x2F;Rc. Some devs even seem to think that non-GC devs are silly poseurs who refuse to have a garbage collector only to reimplement it manually with reference counting. We are silly poseurs alright, but we&#x27;re more efficient than that!<p>I share the author&#x27;s conclusions: don&#x27;t do that. If you find yourself slapping Mutexes and Arc&#x2F;Rc all over the place it probably means that there&#x27;s something messed up with the way you modeled data ownership within your program.