Sorry, I may not have explained my point clearly enough. I'm not suggesting that you would use WASM for server work at all. I'm suggesting that Rust would be

Sorry, I may not have explained my point clearly enough. I'm not suggesting that you would use WASM for server work at all. I'm suggesting that Rust would be interesting for WASM on the frontend because it doesn't depend on a runtime. Given that you might want to use Rust for WASM you may also want to use it on the backend (that's without using WASM on the backend). The assessment of Rust via small projects says nothing about the suitability or not of C or any other language. It's just about the suitability of Rust right now and how it's changed from the last time you assessed it.