Rust covers the lower-level much better. In Julia for example you currently don't have a nice way to modify C-like structs. You can offset memory directly, but

Rust covers the lower-level much better. In Julia for example you currently don't have a nice way to modify C-like structs. You can offset memory directly, but it's a pointless exercise. Even if a record-like syntax is added, the dynamic nature of Julia might incur in different latencies, you have the GC (not optional), and the runtime is quite big. Rust is filling the same niche I'm using c/c++ for, where I need absolute control of every detail: not necessarily for performance.