I am not a huge fan either, but it's at least meaningful in the sense that well written and fast Javascript code is still at least a whole distinctive level slower than well written and fast native code. Other reasons to care about include, native code sometimes solves a class of deployment issues (single binary vs npm package). So while I don't care about Rust per se, the signal about it being compiled/native code is still alluring to me so I welcome this in the headline.