[baranul]

In agreement, that this looks like a false dichotomy being presented to readers, C-derived versus Rust. First, Rust is usually considered or positioned as a C-family language, despite its ML connection. Second, in the context of C alternatives, there are many other memory-safe languages (Golang, Vlang, Dlang, etc...). Third, the context of when Rust is really needed (as a high-level language), is few.

Many of the high level features that Rust offers, outside of memory-safety, other C-family languages have too. And those other languages can have different advantages over Rust: easier to learn, easier to use, readability, compilation speed, etc... Very much a depends type of thing.