[msla]

> Arguably the Rust language is a replacement candidate for 'C' (and C++).

Or is it C and 'C++'?

As it happens, I disagree, because I think a lot of programmers who can otherwise handle pointers and manual memory allocation are going to revolt if we made them do the explicit ownership management notation Rust demands. It's too different from anything done in any other language, and the push-back that it's "too high-level" and "inefficient" and "bloated" will kill it for sure.