[tedmielczarek]

Having worked with him at Mozilla I can assure you that he is familiar with Rust. I'm as much of a Rust fanboy as anyone, but "rewrite it in Rust" is not a simple process, and there are many tradeoffs involved. That being said, I think Rust will continue to improve on this front. Things like the GCC Rust frontend work are promising avenues to expand Rust's reach in terms of supported platforms, and tooling like c2rust will make rewrites simpler. There are also techniques like `RLBox` now that allow compiling C code to WebAssembly and running it in a sandbox which offer mitigation strategies without a full rewrite.