[jstewartmobile]

This may be wishful thinking, but to echo Alan Kay, I have been hoping that with the stalling of Moore's law we'd start being a little more thoughtful about the instruction set architecture (like the B5000) so that we can do safe and performant things in higher-level languages.

I like Rust. I just don't think doing things in a better C than C is going to yield as much of a payoff as these guys think it will.

[stcredzero]

I think they're right, security wise.

[jstewartmobile]

I remember doing all sorts of "clever" arcane things to get a smooth high frame rate for a program on my old IBM PC. Next generation, they have actual graphics cards with overlays, easy vsync, and double-buffering where the buffers can be swapped with a simple toggle instead of trying to find some way to shuffle the bytes faster.

I was able to replace pages of "cleverness" with a few lines of code in the same language.

These guys are very impressed with their improved hammer. It might not be the best tool for the job.