This article is not very compelling. My main reservations with Rust are (1) the community (2) licensing culture. The community seems to have a drastically diffe

This article is not very compelling. My main reservations with Rust are (1) the community (2) licensing culture. The community seems to have a drastically different culture compared to the earlier hacker culture, being weirdly obsessed with social justice and anti-libertarian. But this will probably be diluted the more people use it, so it is not a huge problem. The bigger issue is the tendency to use permissive licenses like Apache or MIT instead of GPL. By writing more and more new code under MIT/Apache it undermines the protections we get from GPL'd code. This boils down to a kind of friendliness to corporations and/or authority in general, which, imo, is dangerous to free software. I was also told that the justification for the permissive license is "I would like to get hired by a $BIG_TECH, and letting them use my package without requiring source release helps with that.".