[steveklabnik]

I agree that these techniques help you write better code, but enforcing something is better than not. Obviously it’s a spectrum, so I wouldn’t say doing that is bad, but it does not really mean Rust is irrelevant.

And Rust brings more to the table than just the borrow checker.

[whiterknight]

Sure, it just invalidates the impending doom, ban C programming narrative.

[steveklabnik]

I’m not sure I would characterize it this way, but it doesn’t satisfy the criteria of “memory safety by default,” which is what more and more organizations are desiring.

Time will tell.