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It is for the tasks that Rust is designed for. Rust is supposed to be a systems language; it is supposed to be the language used for writing web browsers etc, really performance critical stuff.

That was the whole big deal about Rust; that it's possible to get all of the nice functional stuff, the type safety etc yet still get fantastic performance.

You're meant to write your optimising Javascript VM in Rust, basically, your SSL library etc.

I'm not saying that Rust's performance is bad, or won't be good - and certainly that article convinces me of nothing. Nevertheless, if Rust were to be found to be only a little faster than Java for tight loops etc, that'd be disappointing.