[frankjr]

> Rust is renowned for imposing a high cognitive load on all but the most trivial tasks.

By whom exactly? I think it's actually the exact opposite. It completely frees you from having to think about entire classes of bugs.

[foofie]

> By whom exactly?

You didn't read the article, didn't you?

[frankjr]

Did you? It doesn't say anything about the respondents. "respondents that self-identify as a Rust user" is completely useless. Are they professional programmers? Are they just beginners playing with it? Do they know the language well enough to make an assessment?