Whereas after you prove the safety of a design once, it stays with you.
And in many use cases people are throwing Rust (and especially async Rust) on problems solved just fine with GC languages so the safety argument doesn’t apply there.
why do you believe this becomes the case with rust code?
I've been involved in Java, Python, PHP, Scala, C++, Rust, JS projects in my career. I think I'd notice a 5x speed difference in favor of Python if it existed. But I haven't.
If your comments aren't relevant to writing a game engine, then they're not relevant to this thread.
Case in point, I once wrote a program to take a 360 degree image and rotate it so that the horizon followed the horizontal line along the middle, and it faced north. I wrote it in python first and running it on a 2k image took on the order of 5 minutes. I rewrote it in rust and it took on the order of 200ms.
Could I iterate in Python faster? Yes, but the end result was useless.
