No, Rust has decided that safety and speed are more important than developer productivity.

Python or Javascript are "safe" in the sense that Rust is because you literally cannot address memory locations directly.

However, compiled languages will typically be between 3 and 30 times faster than interpreted language.

I can't imagine why your team did this to themselves (sorry, I know it wasn't your fault).

I enjoy programming in compiled languages, but the reason to do this is to get the blazing speed at the end: my feature productivity is halved. And more, it is considerably harder to find C++ or rust programmers than it is to find Python or JS programmers; and a mediocre programmer in a compiled language can do a lot more damage than a mediocre programmer in an interpreted language.

Good luck!