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I didn't say that there's no desire for low level capabilities: without that, nobody from managed environments would care about Rust. But to overcome the skillset inertia that keeps people in the language they are already good at, the gap needs to be bigger than "it's still gc, but the runtime is slightly more lightweight". I'd rather consider those projects as evidence of how high that "different enough" threshold needs to be.

Back in 2003 I loved the idea of D, even if I never used it. But then I also loved the idea of C++/CLR, so I would not put too much on my judgement. My opinion about D has changed far less: still have a soft spot for it, just not enough to make the jump