[blub]

Do you think “Lars”, as chair of the Rust Foundation board of directors and previous Servo project member could have a conflict of interest here?

Something that should be mentioned as a disclaimer when quoting his opinion on Rust vs. other languages and that would significantly water down the strength of their claims.

[steveklabnik]

Could? Sure, in an abstract sense.

What would the motivation be for someone so senior to lie on stage about this stuff? Just because he likes a programming language?

This is conspiracy style thinking.

Thankfully, if Lars is lying about this, there's tons of Google folks here on Hacker News. I haven't seen anyone yet make an actual claim with any evidence that he's not telling the truth here.