The article felt fairly dispassionate and even-handed to me, and I say this as someone who dislikes Klabnik very much and also dislikes the Rust community (especially its insidious, forced MIT rewrites of popular GPL software, with which they also break backwards compatibility). It is worth mentioning that there are certain things about Rust that conceivably could make it faster, e.g., const by default (theoretically facilitating certain optimizations), but in practice, thus far, do not.

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avadodin 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> especially its insidious, forced MIT rewrites of popular GPL software

Is this some sort of movement?

I was aware that some Rust software had been released under permissive licenses but I didn't know it was activism besides the obvious C-is-obsolete angle.

	▲	steveklabnik 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s not deliberate activism. It’s two things: Monomorphizarion makes the GPL weird. Rust is dual licensed under Apache/MIT, and so most people choose the same as a default if they don’t feel strongly about licensing.