> That's how one grows a language, through building successful projects, staying positive (and having an entire platform behind it). Not through doomsday scenar

> That's how one grows a language, through building successful projects, staying positive (and having an entire platform behind it). Not through doomsday scenarios and a constant barrage of criticism. This is exactly what the Rust community is doing! RIIR is something that's only really insisted on for relatively small pieces of security-critical code. With huge codebases like Firefox the rewrite is done piecemeal, to put the rewritten code in use as quickly as possible. The "doomsday scenario" talk about memory-unsafe languages does not come from people writing Rust, it mostly comes from the security community, even at places like Microsoft - because guess what, they've literally been running around with their hair on fire for decades, and they're sick of this especially now that something like Rust is available!