1. Modern standard toolchain 2. Ergonomic use of functional idioms like sum types (Rust's enums) 3. Memory safety without GC overhead - Windows, Linux, curl,

1. Modern standard toolchain 2. Ergonomic use of functional idioms like sum types (Rust's enums) 3. Memory safety without GC overhead - Windows, Linux, curl, over and over again 40% of vulnerabilities in larger C projects are found to be preventable if there was a memory safe language