> 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

> 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. I see this differently: DARPA bets on different baskets in parallel. This is just one basket, if they are wrong it doesn't matter because there are other bets to reduce the general risk.