True, though several people are now working on compiler performance.

> and although debatable, I would say that "Simplicity" is not one of Rusts many virtues.

I've found that Rust seems as simple as it can be given the problem it's solving. For instance, lifetimes and borrow checking aren't trivial, but I have a hard time thinking of a simpler abstraction that has the same safety and performance properties.

Another way to look at it: C is "simpler", in some ways, but it pushes the corresponding complexity into the heads of developers and the code of helper/wrapper libraries and tools.