The original blog didn't blog about what was wrong with C or C++. It blogged about other languages blindly picking up design decisions from C even though they d

The original blog didn't blog about what was wrong with C or C++. It blogged about other languages blindly picking up design decisions from C even though they don't really have a reason to. And Rust has been consistently delivering software with performance on par with or faster than C counter parts. http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ is a recent example. Servo is a more long term one.