Rust community can't control what happens in enterprise, and enterprise has a nasty habit of prioritizing delivery times over robustness. >Well, in order to ge

Rust community can't control what happens in enterprise, and enterprise has a nasty habit of prioritizing delivery times over robustness. >Well, in order to get a smarter compiler, you need new language features to be able to feed additional information about programmer's intent into that compiler Yes and no. There are some things you want to specify for compiler to check, but a lot of behavior can be inferred from the code. Think about some backend server functionality for a website that has to do processing on some json data. You could take that code in python and write absolutely safe C code, and the process to translate it wouldn't be that hard.