On a side note, “jokes for 300” is a template response for joke, referencing to a lockal jeopardy! show equivalent. This response means that joke was mediocre at best.

I agree with your sentiment about users sometimes are disingenuous with their fanboyism. But trying to pretend article is saying rust is terrible for refactoring is not a fair argument either. Some library grade code may require more attention, yes. But in most cases it means you would need to do many changes in other languages too, but you’ll discover it in production.