One part I took issue with is “elite priesthood of Rust and Zig developers” .. I love Rust and hope everyone working on interpreted / high level / “easy” languages knows Rust is accessible and doable for most developers, especially in sync land.
You can benefit from 1000x (!) speed ups just rewriting sync Python in sync Rust, in my measured experience, because the compiler helps exponentially more the more abstract your code is, and Rust can absolutely do high level systems.
The main blocker is when you’re missing some library because it doesn’t exist in Rust, but that’s almost always a big opportunity for open source innovation
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