So that was a troll impersonating a well known Rustacean, but your comment is interesting in that it tries to discount a valid suggestion perhaps Rust is a good

So that was a troll impersonating a well known Rustacean, but your comment is interesting in that it tries to discount a valid suggestion perhaps Rust is a good option in this situation. (Though pjmlp makes a good point about using the OS toolkit). But to your criticisms, Rust has had a lot of attention to making it a decent drop in tool for integrating with C. There are multiple tools to produce the correct ABI either from C or to C from Rust. This is to your point about tooling and interop. Putting rust into an existing project, is generally as easy as linking against any foreign C library, I’ve personally done this enough to know it’s easy to do either as a static library or a dynamic library. To your point about build process. As to developer learning and choice of another language, there may be reasons why C was used in the first place that disqualify GC’ed languages. So if you want and need a safe C replacement that is easy to insert, Rust is a good option. People shouldn’t disqualify it out of hand. In this particular place perhaps it’s not the right solution, and maybe a poor time to suggest it, but your reasons are not accurate to the realities of that work.