[alkonaut]

It brings tooling that is a LOT easier. Just things like dependency management, test running and so on is so much better in Rust than in C, even if you happen to write the exact same code because you basically write unsafe code and hand rolled assembly for many things. I think this is people using the tool they know rather than the best tool (And if you know a tool well, it might become the best tool for the job because of that). It could be because a huge chunk of existing code can be re-used. But all else being equal (existing code, existing developers don't exist) I refuse to believe a codec should ever be written in C ever again.