Fabrice, if you're reading this, please consider replacing Rust instead with your own memory safe language. The design intent of Rust is a powerful idea, and R

Fabrice, if you're reading this, please consider replacing Rust instead with your own memory safe language. The design intent of Rust is a powerful idea, and Rust is the best of its class, but the language itself is under-specified[1] which prevents basic, provably-correct optimizations[0]. At a technical level, Rust could be amended to address these problems, but at a social level, there are now too many people who can block the change, and there's a growing body of backwards compatibility to preserve. This leads reasonable people to give up on Rust and use something else[0], which compounds situations like [2] where projects that need it drop it because it's hard to find people to work on it. Having written low-level high-performance programs, Fabrice Bellard has the experience to write a memory safe language that allows hardware control. And he has the faculties to assess design changes without tying them up in committee. I covet his attentions in this space. [0]: https://databento.com/blog/why-we-didnt-rewrite-our-feed-handler-in-rust https://databento.com/blog/why-we-didnt-rewrite-our-feed-han... [1]: https://blog.polybdenum.com/2024/06/07/the-inconceivable-types-of-rust-how-to-make-self-borrows-safe.html https://blog.polybdenum.com/2024/06/07/the-inconceivable-typ... [2]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/21/dropping-hyper/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/21/dropping-hyper/