[steveklabnik]

Okay, we understand the word “punting” extremely differently then. Active work is the opposite of punting.

And yeah, maybe in an alternative universe where everything is different, things would be different. But that zero-cost C interop is one of the only reasons Rust succeeded enough to be making it to the point where it’s conclusion is considered, let alone re-writing all of the primitives of all the current OSes and waiting until those are widely deployed enough to be able to use only them and ignore all those embedded users. I don’t possibly see a universe where that works out. But in theory it could happen I guess.