Including me! There’s a lot of daylight between “an old dual core laptop” and a last gen thread ripper. For example, I’m running on a quad core i7 from 2015.

My old dual core laptop from 2009 works just fine with Visual Studio 2022, even though I wasn't the OP.

And long compile times kill the battery on the go, and cargo check hardly helps when writing GUI code.

I don’t think I follow the point you’re trying make. Are you trying to say Rust compile times are a problem for you on your 13 year old laptop in the context of writing GUI code on battery? If so I think that’s such a specific scenario that it’s hard to draw any generally applicable conclusions.

I also own devices like laptop graphics workstations.

The point I am making is Rust only for those with enough income to buy hardware powerful enough to have a usable workflow or for anyone regardless of what hardware they can afford?

As for coding on the go, classical desktops are a dying breed.

Your laptop from 2009 predates even Rust's earliest stable version by 6 years. Including computers that are older than the language itself is completely unreasonable.