I enjoyed this post. The premise is a good one, as in for fun. A lot of these "I wrote X in Y" go on some spree of questionable assertions but "because I wanted

I enjoyed this post. The premise is a good one, as in for fun. A lot of these "I wrote X in Y" go on some spree of questionable assertions but "because I wanted to" is intellectually honest and understandable. I agree with a lot of the points about Rust too. Every language is a selection of tradeoffs and for me Rust's chosen tradeoffs I think are both important (eg memory safety) and reasonable. Take something like Cargo. The author says "It just works". This is my experience as well. But more importantly, dependency management and packaging were built into the language and ecosystem from the start. It still boggles my mind that any language that came after Java didn't do this (yes, I'm looking at you, Go). My heart did sink a little bit at "Using Regex of course!" though.