The Tor Project is switching to Rust

Hmmmm.

My biggest gripe with the Tor project is that it is so slow.

I don't think merely moving to Rust makes Tor faster either. And I am also not entirely convinced that Rust is really better than C.

You meant Tor network, right? Sadly, making very fast anonymous overlay networks is extremely difficult. You either make it fast or don't sacrifice anonymity. I personally noticed that Tor network has significantly improved and is way faster since a few years. It's also not recommended to exit and if you religiously stay over onions, you increase your anonymity.

And significantly faster to access onion websites than go through exit nodes, which are probably saturated most of the time.

Reddit over their onion website is very snappy, and compared to accessing reddit over VPN it shows fewer issues with loading images/videos and less likely to be blocked off.

It would be nice if more websites were available as onion addresses (and I2P as well).

edit: also if the Tor browser (desktop and mobile) would ship with ublock origin bundled, that would further improve the experience (Brave browser Tor window compared to the Tor browser is a night and day difference)

Onions are extremely fast and for the level of anonymity they provide, it's an amazing advancement. It's surprising that Reddit has kept their onion in working condition given their poor attempts (a very bad TLS fingerprinting for all redlib instances) recently to shutdown redlib instances.

Tails ships Tor browser with ublock but the Tor browser team doesn't want to for simple reason: fingerprinting. I use ublock too but I feel like majority still don't and disabling javascript alltogether is still the most secure way.