As an embedded systems engineer I have very mixed feelings about Rust. There are a lot of things to like, but Rust seems to miss the point why C++ didn't repla

As an embedded systems engineer I have very mixed feelings about Rust. There are a lot of things to like, but Rust seems to miss the point why C++ didn't replace C and will fail at that for the same reasons. I wish for an economic, unexciting, conservative evolution of C, which I don't see in Rust. I could imagine C++ being replaced by Rust, though I don't think borrow checking is the future of programming. Another point is the tight integration with cargo, which may lead to the same dependency problems that npm has. But it will cause significantly more struggles because of licensing issues. While most npm code was running on servers, it didn't matter. In the embedded space companies typically insist to have every library checked by a lawyer before it gets shipped with the product, which will make cargo essentially useless. The last one is the community. In fact I think a programming language is to the largest part about the people using it. And Mozilla sadly created a hype and a hostile community by aggressively evangelizing the language.