> Rust could have been designed for faster compilation without sacrificing runtime speed, safety, good abstractions, expressiveness
Can you back this up? I'm not a programming language expert, so if there's some common knowledge you're referring to, I'm not aware of it.
> most people on this earth are not as privileged
There's very little "privilege" you need to compile Rust. In my spare time, I develop mainly in Haskell on my ThinkPad X270 and it goes just fine. Building libraries takes time, yes, but you need to do it just once. And while it's building you can think with a piece of paper more — also privilege in a way.
Can you back this up? I'm not a programming language expert, so if there's some common knowledge you're referring to, I'm not aware of it.
> most people on this earth are not as privileged
There's very little "privilege" you need to compile Rust. In my spare time, I develop mainly in Haskell on my ThinkPad X270 and it goes just fine. Building libraries takes time, yes, but you need to do it just once. And while it's building you can think with a piece of paper more — also privilege in a way.