I think DARPA is making the right decision about choosing Rust as the language for low level systems programming. For national security related matters you'd de

I think DARPA is making the right decision about choosing Rust as the language for low level systems programming. For national security related matters you'd definitely want the certainty Rust brings. The reason I personally chose Rust as my go to language for low level programming is that despite learning systems programming in college I pretty much never used it outside of school. Meaning I didn't have any of that knowledge that c and c++ programmers had built up over years of experience. So I decided that instead of having to deal with the unknown skill deficiencies in writing concurrent software and memory management I'd rather just have a compiler scream at me. I don't regret the decision. Also, I remember writing an async TCP implementation in college with c++ using boost. Rust tooling is just so far ahead of that.