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@sicp @redstarfish Rust has "a toolchain that is near impossible to bootstrap on commodity hardware, built with a terribly slow and hungry compiler, as opposed to one that anyone can build and use himself."

Is Rust really that bad? Did some checking just now, and tool chain bootstrapping seems modest by today's standards, like maybe around 2 GB of RAM and 10-15 GB of storage, although productive development assumes a total of 16 GB of RAM. But plenty of people get by with careful tuning for somewhat less.

Higher level question: is Rust especially post-Mozilla support really that competitive? And for things we really care about? As in, there are lots of alternatives if you want memory safety but don't have to go that low level.