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Clone would be what comes closest to copy constructors, and it has to be explicitly invoked.
This rule really helps both the compiler and the programmer to make moving and copying things effortless. It does prevent things like a struct holding internal pointers to it's own state. This is not bad on x86, because you can replace internal pointers with internal offsets, and the instruction set contains a fast reg+reg addressing mode, but can cost an extra instruction on many other cpu architectures. IMHO the rule is well worth it, although it is an example of a situation where Rust chooses to give away a bit of performance for sanity.