[zeveb]

Someone who has something which is indeed better and knows it will believe everything should be rewritten thus; someone who has something which is middling or worse but believes it to be better will think the same thing.

The interesting question is not whether or not the author is a Rust proponent; it's whether or not Rust is an improvement on C. As neither a C nor a Rust programmer, it appears to me that the answer is unequivocally 'yes' — and this despite the fact that Rust is roughly as intelligible as Mandarin to me.