[carstimon]

To add on to the defense in another comment,

I don't think the point of the article is a rust-v-python comparison. Sure, unoptimized-python2rust2optimized rust was a part of the clickbait 180,000x title but... - the author explicitly says the python2rust bit is only a factor of 8. - the Python bit is just one section of a pretty long article - the author says they typically start implementing something in Python so... why wouldn't they include their initial implementation?

I don't think this article should be dismissed just for including a simple python implementation- that isn't the point.