Rust would be a step up from writing bash scripts of yore—imagine, being able to tell the difference between a variable being empty vs unset—but really any non-

Rust would be a step up from writing bash scripts of yore—imagine, being able to tell the difference between a variable being empty vs unset—but really any non-stringly-typed language will get you that, and the GC-based ones are unlikely to have memory errors and are generally fast enough for this purpose. I don’t think there would be anything wrong with a rust implementation of infrastructure management, but I also don’t think it’s the silver bullet to solve what plagues the space.