There’s nothing wrong with putting Rc<> or Rc<RefCell<>> around data
It’s mainly the visual pollution that bothers me. Wrapping everything in the reference counting smart pointers just because you can’t be bothered dealing with the borrow checker seems like an antipattern
At the end of the day, the first thing managers do is convert story points / tshirt sizes / whatever other metaphor back into time estimates. So why bother with the layer of indirection.
I’ll die on the hill that most teams do not need scrum / agile and all the ceremony that always goes with it.
A kanban board with a groomed Todo column is all you need. Simple and effective and can easily adapt to unexpected scope changes a.k.a production incidents.
*yes I’m aware that if you’re getting bogged down in ceremony you’re doing Agile wrong. I’ve never seen or worked in a place where I’ve felt it’s been done right
As someone in Java land, you might be more impressed about its memory footprint rather than its performance.
Your Java hello world that takes 4GB of JVM heap space or it will fail with OutOfMemory would likely be only a few mb in Rust (or even less)