Comment by verdagon

Author here, that might actually make the comparison stronger: not all energy in a data center is wasted by the memory safety approach's drawbacks, meaning it makes less sense to optimize for memory safety overhead.

But if I'm being pro-Rust, I would also say that not all coding is affected by a memory safety approach's downsides; there are some domains where the borrow checker doesn't slow development velocity down at all.

Either way, I definitely agree that its orthogonal to many operational costs. I'll mention this line of thought in the article. Thanks!