If you're writing new C, why wouldn't you write C++ or Rust? I think part of why Rust's borrow checker works so well is because its support for higher-level abs

If you're writing new C, why wouldn't you write C++ or Rust? I think part of why Rust's borrow checker works so well is because its support for higher-level abstraction is so good; my impression is that manual iteration and general array munging is pretty hard to do in Rust (especially without runtime checks), but that doesn't matter because the iterator abstraction is so good. It'd be pretty hard to build something like Rust's iterators in C.