As a person who dislikes rust, the problem is the error messages when there's no error -- quite a different problem. The rust type system is not an accurate model of RAM, the CPU and indeed, no device.

He's here talking about interpreted languages.

He's also one of those mathematicians who are now called computer scientists whose 'algorithms' are simple restatements of mathematics and require no devices. A person actively hostile, in temperament, to the embarrassing activity of programming an actual computer.