It's certainly a less mature ecosystem, but once you get over the hump of understanding lifetimes, there's nothing preventing you from using lots of owned values and clone in a way that makes it really easy to ignore annoying lifetime problems. And, the benefit being if you ever need to get more performance out of a hot part of your code, you can always optimize to get that zero copy goodness.
There is however a downside to the „clone everything“ approach: The performance might get worse than what it would be in an optimized GCed language that doesn’t require cloning (eg C#/Java).
At least I would only reach out for Rust at the moment for performance critical code, and then don’t leave easy optimizations on the table due to lifetimes.
