In the context of Piston being pure rust matters a lot: rust as a really good multi-plateform support and it's way easier to cross-compile project that are full

In the context of Piston being pure rust matters a lot: rust as a really good multi-plateform support and it's way easier to cross-compile project that are full-rust than projects that are Rust with additional C libraries. In the context of image-processing libraries, which are often used in a web-facing environment, being written in Rust with almost no unsafe code is also a major improvement in term of security. > it's not a miracle drug. I agree with you, but I don't think anybody pretends it either. Rust is a massive improvement over the state of the art in system programming. It's not a panacea, and I'm not going to rewrite all my web or mobile code in Rust, but I'm still really happy Rust exists. Projects like this one, or the recent announcement that librsvg is replacing C code with Rust one, give me hope that will see fewer and fewer memory-related security bugs in the future, and it's about time !