I agree with you, though let’s add that different languages have different paradigms/idiomatic patterns and in case of Java Optional is not one, while in case o

I agree with you, though let’s add that different languages have different paradigms/idiomatic patterns and in case of Java Optional is not one, while in case of Rust, it is and was likely optimizes extensively. Of course the niches of the two languages are very different, the whole point of Rust is being a safe low-level language, which can express the wanted functionality more specifically (at the cost of much higher developer complexity). So this test is as “unfair” as benchmarking Rust’s allocation performance against Java, for example