I don't think it's the only reason. My C programmer friends like the dangerous features of the language and want to use them. Their programs are designed aroun

I don't think it's the only reason. My C programmer friends like the dangerous features of the language and want to use them. Their programs are designed around the assumption that they can mutate anything in memory whenever they want to. They use mutable global variables. They would strongly dislike Rust's memory protections and ownership concept, and its other safety features.