The original poster got pretty much all of Debian running in Fil-C, in a fairly brief amount of time. Re-writing even a single significant library or package i

The original poster got pretty much all of Debian running in Fil-C, in a fairly brief amount of time. Re-writing even a single significant library or package in Rust would take exponentially longer, so in this case Rust would not be "a better choice", but rather a non-starter.