The article also does absolutely nothing to motivate the choice of Rust. It's not like it's hard to find a better language than C or C++, so why Rust? Ada seems like it wasn't even considered, as the only mention of it was at the person's first job, some 15 years earlier. For example, if running on Android was a requirement, what made Rust a better choice than say Java or Scala?

The article doesn't explain anything as to why Rust was chosen and why it was (supposedly) a win, as anything mentioned as a plus is superficial enough to be covered by dozens of other languages.