For what it’s worth game devs often use C# or C++ engines which have even worse issues. Rust also has the early beginnings of hot reload which bevy adopted if I recall correctly [1]. I still think a higher level language is good for “business” logic to orchestrate how efficient low-level pieces connect, but Rust is holding its own even against those use cases IMHO.

[1] https://docs.rs/hot-lib-reloader/latest/hot_lib_reloader/