[ddevault]

You can do both! But because simplicity has a substantially greater impact than the language choice, I think it's better to focus on that. Right now, the ecosystem is focusing more on the language choice, and hardly talking about simplicity at all. And particularly in the case of Rust, I think it fails simplicity a lot in its own ways - in the stdlib, the compiler and toolchain, the language design - and the trade-offs don't really make sense for a lot of use cases that people are pining for it over anyway.