Shhhh, let this one go. So many people don't get optimization and why it is needed that I'll take anything we can get. Hell, I routinely see people saying no one needs to know C because python calls C in "the backend" (who the fuck writes "the backend" then?). The more people that can learn some HPC and parallelism, the better.

I wrote the blog mostly as an answer to people who ask us why we're choosing to use Rust. We're not using it for performance reasons, but it's also not the true that the performance difference is entirely insignificant.