I think that’s why Rust managed to get a foot in the door. It doesn’t look like C with an extra feature or two, so it doesn’t get dismissed as an incremental i

I think that’s why Rust managed to get a foot in the door. It doesn’t look like C with an extra feature or two, so it doesn’t get dismissed as an incremental improvement that could be DIYed in C instead (at least not by people who understand what Rust does). Safety helps justify use of Rust it in places where this is important, but developers stick with it for all the other quality of life improvements. If you only fix safety in C, you’ll still have C, with all the 1970’s clunkiness.