It really isn't if you don't have the right abstractions.

Especially for memory management the right and wrong abstractions in Rust can lead to a factor of 5 or 10 extra amount of difficulty. The right memory management abstraction and your code can be a straight line port (or even cleaner!), the wrong one and you're going to just be spending a lot of tokens to have a machine spin around in circles trying to untie itself

GC'd languages don't have this problem, though obviously you can still generate stupid amount of pain for yourself by doing something wrong