If a friend told me they liked Rust but didn't like the borrow checker, I'd probably point them to Gleam and Moonbit, which both seem awesome in their own niches.
Both have rust-like flavor and neither has a borrow checker.
Someone should create a DAG of programming languages with edges denoting contextual influence and changes in design and philosophy, such that every time a PL is critized for a feature (or lack thereof), the relevant alternatives exactly considering this would be readily available. It could even have a great interactive visualization.
I can't really get over Gleam's position that nobody really needs type-based polymorphism, real programmers write their own vtables by hand.
(It also needs some kind of reflection-like thing, either compile-time or runtime, so that there can be an equivalent of Rust's Serde, but at least they admit that that needs doing.)
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