Comment by kibwen

Per HN guidelines, this article should have its publication year of 2015 in the title (the article itself seems to not include a date, but one can find the various submissions on Reddit where this was originally discussed). In fact, it's old enough that it even predates the Rust 1.0 release. I haven't gone ahead and read it in full again this time, since the irony of a company selling C++ static analysis software denouncing the utility of Rust is not lost on me, but it would be interesting to see someone with time on their hands go through and see how things have changed in the past four years. In my skimming I noticed it criticizing Rust's results on the benchmarks game, which indeed have improved to C++ levels since then.