It’s not treating rust as a panacea, it’s that the ambient level of expectations for software is getting higher. Although C is going to be more ubiquitous than

It’s not treating rust as a panacea, it’s that the ambient level of expectations for software is getting higher. Although C is going to be more ubiquitous than Rust for the foreseeable future, adding new code in memory unsafe languages will eventually require some justification as to why it’s worth the risk. We’re not there yet, but it’s coming. And yes. Low level code requires unsafety sometimes, or at least code that is not provably safe (digression: save for maybe using actual proofs a la seL4?) The important bit about Rust and other memory safe languages is that in Rust, memory unsafeness can be minimized and accounted for. That’s a whole class of bugs that is traditionally basically unmanageable in most non-trivial projects. Go is also memory safe by default, but the runtime is too heavy, and thus we’re here.