I've poked around in the Rust linked list tutorial, and it all seems like hacks to me. At the end of the day I think you just need to use raw pointers when you're implementing list operations.
About as real as any programming humor post. But seriously, he specifically requested that it be enabled and I really don't get the hate that rust gets.
Rust is a really interesting language, the reason I decided not to pursue it further is the community, especially the maintainers (I hope that's the right word for it).
It's full of drama and politics (including real world political stances), sometimes they even incuded them in their release notes.
I wasn't too invested in these aspects, but I don't want to take my time to master something that's one drama away from being abandoned or (more likely) fractured.
Programming languages should be tools to get a job done, not to push political points, even if I happen to agree with most of them.
The GPU drivers from the team working on apple silicon linux stuff are written in rust, so it's really coming. The threat part is probably a joke though.