Gankra was heavily involved in low level rust plumbing such as linking, ABIs, unsafe code, and so on. Comparing to rust is both speaking to the other similar language she has experience with, and speaking to many of the people who were likely to read this article (those people being from the rust community). This article also really does achieve the goal in the third paragraph (at least when read by the right audience)

> Also some folks like to complain that Rust doesn't bother with ABI stability, and I think looking at how Swift does helps elucidate why that is.