Yep, agreed on all accounts; I'm an advocate for Rust for Linux for these reasons, among others. My thinking was that the Linux kernel already uses a custom di

Yep, agreed on all accounts; I'm an advocate for Rust for Linux for these reasons, among others. My thinking was that the Linux kernel already uses a custom dialect of C with specific features that benefit their workflow; I'm surprised that one of those features wasn't a char[] charset = b"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; that would allow for intent to be signalled to the compiler.