I think that's quite unfair. The article contains many different tips on how to reduce size. Rewriting in a different language was just one of them, pretty far

I think that's quite unfair. The article contains many different tips on how to reduce size. Rewriting in a different language was just one of them, pretty far down on the list. "Write in C instead of C++" is also clearly not the same as "remove all your code"...