> To paraphrase Norvig's Latency numbers a programmer should know, if we imagine a computer that executes 1 CPU instruction every second, it would take it _days

> To paraphrase Norvig's Latency numbers a programmer should know, if we imagine a computer that executes 1 CPU instruction every second, it would take it _days_ to read from RAM. I think the author probably misread the numbers. If CPU executed 1 instruction every second, it would take just 1—2 minutes to read from uncached RAM, no need to be overly dramatic. Overall, this reads to me like a very young programmer trying to convince themselves to learn Rust because he heard it's cool, not an objective evaluation. And I'm totally on board with that, whatever convinces you, just learn new things!