I think it is a little bit melodramatic as an analogy. It's perfectly fine to tinker with C, to use it in personal projects, to use it where it's not possible t

I think it is a little bit melodramatic as an analogy. It's perfectly fine to tinker with C, to use it in personal projects, to use it where it's not possible to use something safer (some embedded system that Rust doesn't have a backend for) or if you want to contribute to an existing project like Linux, OpenBSD or CPython. Whereas it's really not a good idea to work with Asbestos under any circumstances. But the message overall - that maybe we don’t need to instinctively reach for C for newbuild low-level programming anymore - is probably about right