Yes, but "mediocre" is not measurable on an absolute scale. If you're trying to obsolete 50-year old technology, today's mediocre technology is probably good en

Yes, but "mediocre" is not measurable on an absolute scale. If you're trying to obsolete 50-year old technology, today's mediocre technology is probably good enough. Rust is a fairly conservative language. It doesn't really do anything novel, it mostly just synthesizes patterns that have existed for years. Hopefully Rust truly is mediocre (at least in hindsight). That would mean the things it is attempting to replace are seen for how primitive they truly are.