"C with a bit of ML sprinkled in" is IMO quite an understatement. ML is all over the place. Personally i would have been happier if Rust had become "C with onl

"C with a bit of ML sprinkled in" is IMO quite an understatement. ML is all over the place. Personally i would have been happier if Rust had become "C with only the borrow checker and nothing else".But the community decided differently, and that's OK too. I'm a low level guy (embedded and systems stuff) and what i would hate in our codebase is if look at line of code and find x numbers of concepts in it. Nevertheless i applaud what you and the Rust community achieved, but my impression is that you'll be going the C++ way. Why? I follow the discussions of the Rust community about the future of the language, and there's always this "if we only add this one more feature" (for example see discussion about GC). P.S.: For everyone saying "just use the features you need", no, this won't work. If they are available, people will (a)use them (see C++). Edit: Typo.