The blog immediately put that statement into context, stating that the binary file actually ended up replacing most of their stack. At the end of the day, they ended up with about the same size binary size. Also, they were not even really trying to optimize for size.
It worked rather well for Xerox PARC, TI, Genera and others, had they not mismanaged their products, or fighting against workstations being built with a free beer OS.
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Binary size, for one. The blog mentions a binary file grew from 220kb (C) to over 400kb (Rust).
I also doubt a garbage-collected language work very well for drivers that require precise timing (MMIO) and/or control over memory allocation.
The blog immediately put that statement into context, stating that the binary file actually ended up replacing most of their stack. At the end of the day, they ended up with about the same size binary size. Also, they were not even really trying to optimize for size.
It worked rather well for Xerox PARC, TI, Genera and others, had they not mismanaged their products, or fighting against workstations being built with a free beer OS.