People stopped taking Brian seriously when he helped create Go. That was pre-Rust.

Even the “talking points” here seem to be re-used from “Go vs. X” ones. Also, his experience speaks of someone who only tried Rust pre-v1.0.

Anyone who actually knows Rust, anti- or pro-, knows that what he said (partially in jest) is factually wrong.

Feel free to prove otherwise, especially the part about the performance of Rust programs. Don’t be surprised if he simply didn’t pass --release to cargo build, a common pitfall for someone in the “hello world” stage of trying Rust.

And this is why appeal to authority was never more fallacious, considering we live in a world where Dunning-Kruger is a universal reality.

The first thing forcing an option does, is depriving that option the ability to know what it could achieve on pure merit.