In my view, the problem with C in general is that it's a loaded gun with no safety or trigger guard. It's trivial to shoot yourself (or someone else) in the foo

In my view, the problem with C in general is that it's a loaded gun with no safety or trigger guard. It's trivial to shoot yourself (or someone else) in the foot, and it requires knowledge, meticulous care and lots of forethought to avoid getting shot. I very much agree that rewriting existing, stable software written in C is likely not worth the trouble in many cases, but I can't accept claims that the limitations of C aren't the direct cause of tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities, either. In Rust, even a less experienced developer can fearlessly perform changes in complicated code because the language helps make sure your code is correct in ways that C does not. And you can always turn off the safeties when you need to. Experienced developers should feel all the more empowered by simply not having to always worry about things like accidental concurrent access, use-after-free, object ownership, null pointers or the myriad other trivial ways to cause your program to fail that are impossible in safe Rust. You get to worry about the non-trivial failure modes instead, which is much more productive.