but it didn't do jack shit to help me believe that. Because they did not say that that was the goal. So there was no credibility to affect in the first place.

Also, your argument does not make sense anyway. As a native language, due to some extra copying needed and some runtime checks that cannot be elided, it is slower than c++. It can be almost as fast, really close, but ever so slightly slower.

Electron is written in c++. A native language. A native language faster than rust (we're talking about speed not safety here). And yet, it is the canonical example of "bloated and slow". If you were to rewrite electron in rust, it'd be safer, but also at least just as slow.

So if the editor really is faster, it's not because the code was written in rust. It's because the devs are writing better code. That's why just saying it's written in rust is useless.