[femngi]

Rust is aiming more to be a better C++. However that doesn't preclude it from being used in the same space as C and can become impressively lightweight if you forgo things like the standard library.

I would argue that it is better than C for its safety features alone. I hope in the future we look back at this decade with its never ending stream of buffer overflow vulnerabilities with disbelief that we could use something so insecure for something so vital.

[pjmlp]

I have been complaining about it since the MS-DOS days and many of us used Turbo Pascal, when Assembly wasn't required.

Somehow along the way UNIX spread into the enterprise and brought C along.

[reikonomusha]

Shouldn't we already be suspended in disbelief given the languages we have had for 30+ years?