> Some very solid argument here. However, as already implied in my article, you can get most of the guarantees without losing your sanity.

I think this is part of why your article is causing a strong reaction from a lot of people; quite a lot of the justification for your point of view is left implied, and the concrete examples you do give about Rust (e.g. `Arc<Mutex<Box<T>>>>` and `.unwrap`) are hard not to see as straw men when plenty of people write Rust all the time without needing to rely on those; it turns out it's also possible to get more reliability out of Rust for those people without losing their sanity.

Most of the opinions you give are hard to distinguish from you personally not finding Rust to provide a great experience, which is totally valid, but not really indicative of "core problems" in the language. If you instead were making the argument of why you don't personally want to write any code in Rust, I don't think I'd have much criticism for your point of view (even though I wouldn't find much of it to apply to me). Then again, the article starts off with a statement of previously having made an intentionally provocative statement purely to try to compensate for a perceived bias in others, so maybe I'm just falling for the same bit by trying to engage the article as if it's serious.