Your first point perplexes me, Rust is a systems programming language like C, Pascal, FORTRAN, C++ and the like. Building ahead-of-time platform specific binari

Your first point perplexes me, Rust is a systems programming language like C, Pascal, FORTRAN, C++ and the like. Building ahead-of-time platform specific binaries is business as usual and not anything really notable about Rust itself. It's also actually a feature if you want to do things like bare-metal runtimeless code.