I’ve used Rust daily for the last 6 years; from writing compilers and WASM runtimes to writing smart contracts and SDKs… and the experience has been nothing short of amazing.

I’m not sure what you mean by a “casual setup,” but I find Cargo to be very easy to use. Granted, compilation can be pretty slow, but it’s a small price to pay for the runtime performance.

If by “faster feedback” you mean something that looks and feels like Python’s REPL, then I think you’re missing the point here. Rust is a compiled language.