alt Hacker NewsRust, a language with affine types, generics, lifetimes, deep static analysis, hygienic macros, etc is not low-level. It's nearly as high-level as Haskell (without HKTs though).
It just does not rely on GC and allows to manage resources efficiently. This efficiency is partly due to its being so high-level.
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While I agree on the fact that it allows to manage resources efficiently, I don't agree on the fact the efficency derives from it being high-level; from a purely tecnical standpoint, i could skim off 2-3MB from the memory footprint by writing the code in pure C, as there are some unused parts of Rust's std that cannot be removed without recompiling std.
This is obv only a technical talk, as writing an AI TUI in pure C would be rather... ehhh
Agreed, Rust is way more expressive than people give it credit for.