> It is not fun but frustrating to work in Rust, and contrary to C, you are limited by the language/compiler on what you can do.
People who have had prior exposure to C tend to find Rust frustrating.
People who have not had prior exposure to C tend to find it fun, and an average programmer of this sort can fearlessly write bare-metal code that beats the code of the best C programmers writing in C in safety and rivals it in performance.
Systems programming has been fundamentally changed by Rust. It's become as accessible and democratized as web programming, no longer the sole province of a cadre of elite C programmers.
Indeed it was (/s), that's why not even Servo has been shipped. Stop preaching programming languages without results. Because of their benevolent dictators, Linux (Linus Torvalds), Clojure (Rich Hikey), Zig (Andrew Kelley) and Python (Guido van Rossum), the development process of these has been less democratic, and this is precisely why the results are so good. A good design is not a democratic consensus. Look how Rust and C++ ended up, a big pile of complexity. Even Scala 3 was saved with an intervention from Martin Odersky to clean up the language, with huge backlash from the community.
Servo was not meant to ship (at least by Mozilla, when there was paid staff working on Servo), it was a research vessel and Rust components now shipping in Firefox (Stylo, WebRender) started life in Servo.
People who have had prior exposure to C tend to find Rust frustrating.
People who have not had prior exposure to C tend to find it fun, and an average programmer of this sort can fearlessly write bare-metal code that beats the code of the best C programmers writing in C in safety and rivals it in performance.
Systems programming has been fundamentally changed by Rust. It's become as accessible and democratized as web programming, no longer the sole province of a cadre of elite C programmers.