[jpgvm]

It doesn't help that the only language they could think of to compare Rust to is D.

While D is alright it was never really slated to be the "next systems language" in the way Rust is being positioned.

The other part of the argument that comes across as really weak is criticism of Cargo. That would make sense if the alternative had better tooling. However if you have ever tried to assemble libraries and a decent build process for them in a large C++ project you would know that Cargo is almost like a gift from god.

Claiming that Rust is "simple" because it doesn't have inheritance is also a straw-man. Inheritance is far from the only means of polymorphism and it's presence has little bearing on the overall power of the language. In fact I would argue Rust's trait system is actually the more powerful of the two, but that is just my opinion.

Overall the author comes across as trying to find reasons to dislike Rust for the sake of disliking it, as if they feel threatened by it's very existence.