[sgeisler]

Not parent, but I'd think twice before contributing to a C code base I'm not completely familiar with in fear of causing some bug/CVE. Rust projects are much nicer for drive-by contributions to projects one uses but isn't generally interested in working on. If you are not working on a security critical part of a system you can be pretty sure not to cause severe bugs like RCEs.

Also for pure rust projects the development environment is easier to set up: cargo+rustc do everything vs. autotools+make+installing system wide libraries+ccache+gcc (just what I've seen in the wild).