[mirekrusin]

As a meta-comment - it's interesting to see how religiously-intense this discussion has became. Why are we - programmers - need to hold such a strong opinions about languages? Especially considering a fact that the playground is completely open.

My personal opinion is that if he was wrong - we wouldn't even be reading his argument - it wouldn't make it to the top of HN - everybody would be using Xurl library instead (written in X-lang, where X is not C).

At the same time Rust is shaping to be fantastic language and I personally hope that soon we'll see Rurl cargo together with kernel and what not in Rust. Unless in this decade something better will appear, who knows?