[flohofwoe]

> If Rust was just C but with strong typing, a borrow checker and what would basically be super strong static analysis of pairing malloc() and free(), people would likely switch immediately.

This is in a nutshell why I haven't switched to Rust. All I actually want is a small language like C, Go or Zig, but with compile time memory safety guarantees. Even if it means that a lot of 'dangerous' flexibility is removed or in an unsafe{} block (essentially a Rust--).

IMHO one problem with Rust is that it is moving too quickly into too many different directions, and as a result becoming a 'kitchen-sink language' in the tradition of C++.