> [...] to throw away my time and play with toys. Rust is not a toy. It's possible that your prejudice stops you from seeing Rust's benefits. It's also possibl

> [...] to throw away my time and play with toys. Rust is not a toy. It's possible that your prejudice stops you from seeing Rust's benefits. It's also possible that you're working in a niche where Rust's advantage compared to C or C++ isn't as great as for most other areas of software development. And that's okay, Rust isn't quite there yet. For some very small niches, it might never be. > [...] existing corpus of literal decades of knowledge having been poured into those language ecosystems [...] Frankly, even with those "decades of knowledge", C programs and libraries are still full of security vulnerabilities caused by C's limitations and memory handling. How many more decades will it take? How many more thousands of vulnerabilities?