This story is about moving away from WASM for an application that's unsuitable for it. It's not really about Rust.

There's a certain segment of the industry that's always chasing the newest thing. Many of them like Zig for some ghastly reason.

That said, Rust does have real problems. Manual memory management sucks. People think GC is expensive? Well, keep in mind malloc() and free() take global locks! People just have totally bogus mental models of what drives performance. These models lead them to technical nonsense.