The article is comparing Rust principally to Python (a new dynamically typed language) and C++ (an old statically typed language). It&#x27;s certainly plausible that it can bring benefits over these.<p>More interesting to me would be comparing it to a new-ish multi-paradigm language, of which there are many right now (e.g Swift, OCaml, Haskell, F#, Scala). It seems like in practical applications these newer FP languages will be much more productive than Rust, as memory management is much simpler. Rust&#x27;s principle of zero-cost abstractions is great in theory, but can&#x27;t think of many applications where it&#x27;s the limiting factor except perhaps embedded devices and kernel development.