[byko3y]

>the things that Rust prevents me from handling safely because of its own limitations rather than them being fundamentally unsafe are quite rare, and even with those, they tend to be things that I would be quite likely to mess up in practice if I tried to do them in a language without the same safety rails.

Any language with GC can handle complex links between object, including mutable object. Like Erlang/Elixir, JS, Go, etc. You message implies runtime-less language, but majority of practically employed languages are runtime-full.