It's your right to delude yourself that the runtime does not matter. That's not a discussion I am willing to have though, especially when exactly 100% of my 22+ years of programming experience have demonstrated, time and again, that the runtime inevitably ends up making a lot of difference (sometimes all the difference even).
Or, when you don't have a runtime -- as is the case with Rust, kinda sorta I mean because technically `tokio` can be classified as a runtime -- then you rely on a stricter compiler.
Both strategies work pretty well.
I am not shitting on C# / .NET, they are solid as hell. But some things the BEAM VM just does better and everyone who worked with old-school VMs (in my case the JVM) and the BEAM VM can tell you that.
But again, you do you, think what you will. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
