One thing that this blog doesn’t address though, is the cult-like following of Rust. It’s like the “AI” of oss — a main selling point by itself despite not being a feature. Seemingly, there is an assumption that software written in Rust is inherently better than any other, or that if something is written in Rust, it cannot have any errors.
Sure, new software should be written in it instead of C. But why fix programs that are already memory safe?
One thing that this blog doesn’t address though, is the cult-like following of Rust. It’s like the “AI” of oss — a main selling point by itself despite not being a feature. Seemingly, there is an assumption that software written in Rust is inherently better than any other, or that if something is written in Rust, it cannot have any errors.
Sure, new software should be written in it instead of C. But why fix programs that are already memory safe?