Nobody is making this argument for JS tooling. The article does mentions GC, but that's just demonstrating differences between JS and Rust. The other popular

Nobody is making this argument for JS tooling. The article does mentions GC, but that's just demonstrating differences between JS and Rust. The other popular JS-tooling alternative is esbuild, which is built in Golang, which has a GC. If anything, the two most common arguments in favor of Rust for this specific use case are null-pointer safety and speed.