Wow, Rust is amazing, so fast! It is like these people never learnt c? Why did they spend all this time trying to optimise such a high level language? Surely th

Wow, Rust is amazing, so fast! It is like these people never learnt c? Why did they spend all this time trying to optimise such a high level language? Surely they can afford a more experienced engineer who will tell them that is a path that isn't worth it? I jump straight to c when there is anything like this, although I guess Rust is an option these days.