[bsder]

> I hope that Rust joins the pantheon of eternal languages.

I'm torn about this. On one hand, Rust is so much better than C it is ridiculous and I really hope it does become a language with decade-long longevity.

On the other hand, Rust is the first new "systems programming" language in forever and is finally prying the door open to something other than C/C++. I'm really hoping that Rust opening the door and paving the way means that now we can get something better.

What worries me about Rust is the impedance mismatch down at the very primitive hardware level--bytes and registers. The embedded guys are doing an amazing job papering over it, but the abstractions leak through quite a lot and you have to twist things around to satisfy them.

The problem is: that's a lot of fiddly code with all kinds of corner cases. So, you either have a lot of work or you throw up your hands and invoke C (like Zig does).