> Rust invented the concept of ownership as a solution memory management issues without resorting to something slower like Garbage Collection or Reference Counting.

This is plain wrong, and it undermines the credibility of the author and the rest of the piece. Rust did not invent ownership in the abstract; it relies on plain RAII, a model that predates Rust by decades and was popularized by C++. What Rust adds is a compile-time borrow checker that enforces ownership and lifetime rules statically, not a fundamentally new memory-management paradigm.

Thank you for saying that. It makes me crazy every time I read that rust invented the concept of ownership…