> The main body of the article is not hate — it's plain facts. Everybody working on a significant Rust codebase agrees ...

Lol. Its not facts. Its a description of frustrating things you've experienced working with rust, dressed up as "deep truths about the language". You don't speak for the rust community. This article would be much more interesting if you just talked about your own experience without pretending your issues are universal.

Re: compilation time, in the 2024 state of rust survey 25% of rust developers said slow builds was a big problem. And thats a lot of people! But 19% of people said its not a problem at all for them. Its certainly not "everyone".

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/13/2024-State-Of-Rust-Sur...

I suspect if you keep using rust, the things that annoy you about the language will change a lot over time. Some things will stop bothering you, and some things will start bothering you a lot more! (Like IMO Rc/Box/etc isn't a big deal. Once you learn to structure your code in a rusty way, you almost never need that stuff.)

I really like rust now. But I found learning rust to be incredibly painful. I get why you're struggling with it. But please don't confuse your struggle for universal truths about rust. You're only one person.