It's been over 10 years since Rust 1.0 was released, and C programmers still see it as a new fad. Yet, the same article mentions, but fails to connect the dots, that even the large slow-moving corporations bankrolling the foundation have already adopted Rust and are leaving C as fast as they can.
It's a typical C mindset that rewriting programs creates new bugs, because it takes years to "battle test" and shake bugs out of a C program. In my experience rewrites in Rust uncover latent bugs of C programs when they finally get checked lifetimes, useful type system, enforced error checking, etc.
It's a typical C mindset that rewriting programs creates new bugs, because it takes years to "battle test" and shake bugs out of a C program. In my experience rewrites in Rust uncover latent bugs of C programs when they finally get checked lifetimes, useful type system, enforced error checking, etc.