I think long term, FreeBSD may lose out if Rust in the base system is not supported. Note the 'may'. It is hard to predict the future in this regard. Where I w

I think long term, FreeBSD may lose out if Rust in the base system is not supported. Note the 'may'. It is hard to predict the future in this regard. Where I work, we have some open source C code that is also in the FreeBSD base system. We have decided to create new code in Rust and look into deprecating the C code. Obviously, the FreeBSD project can just take over maintenance of the C code, but that will be burden to the project. Note the 'may' and 'long term'. But for a project like FreeBSD it is good to look at Rust before it becomes an issue. A more silent problem, it is quite possible that Rust programmers are less likely to contribute to a project that is based on C and C++ where Rust is not welcome. Certainly when new code is needed, that group will wonder why it needs to be written in C or C++.