Sorry, you should do more research... :) Rust has great support for very low level operations. Maybe search for 'bitwise operators' or 'inline assembly'. Memory

Sorry, you should do more research... :) Rust has great support for very low level operations. Maybe search for 'bitwise operators' or 'inline assembly'. Memory management is even more explicit and strict than C, since you also have to deal with lifetimes and borrowing. The best thing is, though, since Rust is such a young language, you can change it! Imagine trying to add a new language feature to C, something like the ? operator currently being evaluated for addition in Rust. It would take years, if not decades, to get those things in C. Even now MSVC is just rolling out support for C99. I can definitely see Rust taking over C's current place in the market over the next decade or two. Better memory safety, higher-level constructs to improve productivity, more cross-platform compatibility, and modern libraries to deal with things like Unicode are a huge draw.