Fromthe mouth of CockraochDB's CTO: ‶So if we were starting at this point in time, I would take a hard look at Rust, and I imagine that we would pick it instead of C++.″
It was a joke, to capture the sentiment here in HN. Rust is awesome, and most people know it. My point was that people will focus more often on which language is used, rather than the technical design, performance, etc...
Right, meaning, no, the CTO would not be "surprised" that C++ was a candidate for a high performance system. C++ is the defacto, and Rust would be a "new" option.