I'm not sure I understand why some people really hate Rust, but when the argument feels like "But can't we be miserable forever?" I just have to laugh.
FYI -- my technical thinking -- because Rust is a nicer language for the people who have to work with it. Full stop.
Rust offers substantial memory safety guarantees, but that isn't the only thing it offers. People who don't know this are those that haven't tried it. Others have focused on security in this thread, and I think that's wrong headed. That's obviously not the reason for choosing Rust here. It's that it makes things that are important now and in the future, like say concurrency, easier and more likely to be correct. Yes, ergonomics and a nice dev experience actually matter even for the people writing your compiler!
Moreover, Rust GCC support is far closer to being a thing that yjit is to being a thing. So -- let the kids play.
