> why the rust crowd thinks manual memory management and zero cost abstractions are the only bullet points that matter. I don't think that's an accurate charac

> why the rust crowd thinks manual memory management and zero cost abstractions are the only bullet points that matter. I don't think that's an accurate characterization of "the Rust crowd," but even if we do take it at face value, it would make sense: Rust was intended for the layer of the stack where these things do matter. Even though Rust has broken out of that initial layer, as the post demonstrates, culturally these things are likely to hold a bit more value than they may otherwise.