That’s a fair point. Something we’re very interested in is exposing libraries written in Julia without the full runtime, ditching the JIT or the GC if you don’t need them. It would be easy to write a libm replacement in Julia, for example, without using either of those.

Regarding talent, it depends on the kind of talent you’re talking about. Yes, systems programmers like Rust. On the other hand, needing to deal with a strict borrow checker excludes a very large number of people with numerical computing, data science and machine learning expertise (not all, but definitely most). So it cuts both ways.