No mention of performance in the article; if you live on the server and can spare big bucks for compute, sure... go ahead and pay for your Java or C# runtimes.

No mention of performance in the article; if you live on the server and can spare big bucks for compute, sure... go ahead and pay for your Java or C# runtimes. Rust has its applications, but the static analysis ecosystem for C++ has come a long way. I can't imagine memory unsafety still being an issue in 99.9% of C++ code (and if it is, you need better tooling and policies, not a new language).