The author was intentionally careful not to "name names" but apart from occasional line noise it seems like Rust or modern C++ (in a pinch) are the sweet spots for minimising these complaints.<p>It makes total sense through a systems management lens.<p>But the things you care about when running software are different from those you have when writing the software. Good GC would be high on my list of "nice to have if we can afford some latency". And the concerns you have running code "at huge scale" are not the same as those you have at small scale...