> Now it can be shown that in most cases that C is faster than anything on JVM, but in reality it wasn't, and that C code was riddled with bugs. Um, what? Your

> Now it can be shown that in most cases that C is faster than anything on JVM, but in reality it wasn't, and that C code was riddled with bugs. Um, what? Your metaphor breaks down because it doesn’t really connect with reality. The operating system and the browser you typed that in are written in C/C++ because the performance hit of doing that in a language like java would be absurd. Practically every performance sensitive application is still written in C/C++ (games, productivity tools, desktop apps, etc). Rust is, outside of places like HN, just an interesting novelty to like 99.999% of the software industry, and your average java app is glue code between a gui and a database.