> we are finally getting low level software that no longer needs it We're not, though. There's a little bit of low-level software being written in Rust (and ev

> we are finally getting low level software that no longer needs it We're not, though. There's a little bit of low-level software being written in Rust (and even that requires a non-trivial amount of unsafe code), but most new low-level software is being written in C++ or C. And even if a more popular safe low-level programming language arrived tomorrow and gained a more respectable adoption, that still wouldn't be fast enough because of all the existing software.