Why wasn't .net considered?

The whole article is very weird, and there is little to learn from it. Wind on till they've actually made the port, and have run it for some time and then there will be some interesting lessons learnt, gazing into my crystal ball it will be somethong like 'turned out to be harder and take longer than we thought, but the result is good'

I would like to apologise on behest of the Rust community, we are not all like this. Java would have been a fine choice.

I don't know, but it does seem self-contradictory to say it wasn't considered, because there's an implicit consideration in that, even if it's short lived.

SNOBOL4 on the other hand, was probably not considered at all.

Java or Kotlin seems actually a very good compromise. Very good performance and also actually in the top of the list of the energy efficient languages. Plus you can find a lot of more devs using JVM tech stack.

Obviously the well known habit of JVM applications to leak memory. /s

(Although being fair, I've met some Java libs that leak memory (looking at you, Couchbase), usually via poor usage of byte buffers. But Rust doesn't let you use unsafe code constructs, so it'll be fine. I guess I need another /s now.)

Because it would be the best choice and it's old.

You cannot sell C/Java.

Computers are now reaching the maturity lightbulbs had when they artificially limited the burn time to 1000 hours.

Personally I going back to C and JavaSE/J2ME on Rasperry 4/Pico.