Good article if you read it all.

> Those decades spent fighting memory bugs in C or C++, with the scars to prove it, are worthless in the age of Rust, Go, Python and JavaScript.

For most people sure. I’ve had GC kill a service in production, or even just tank p99. And I think a decade of C gives you a massive head start with rust. Less screaming “WTF WHY?” at the compiler anyway.