Slide with text: “Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”
In small print it says the data is collected over 2022 and 2023.
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I think your quantifier of "any other language" is the issue. There are certainly languages with far more powerful type systems than Rust, such as Coq or Lean.
Maybe, although I'm not aware of any other language that has the same abstraction around ownership and lifetimes. Most other languages I'm aware of that have more (or equivalently) powerful type systems are also GCed languages that don't let you directly control whether something gets stack or heap allocated. Nor due they allow you to guarantee that a variable is entirely consumed by some operation and no dangling references remain. While at a high level you can write something that accomplishes a similar result in other higher level languages, you can not express exactly the same thing due to not having direct access to the lower level memory management details.