It’s good that Rust has this culture. But the flip side is that issues that wouldn’t even be bugs in other languages have CVEs filed for them in Rust. A layman looking at the Rust language thinks it looks very insecure. Example from a couple weeks ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33151963
The problem, and this goes back as I can remember, is that C folks use the remaining 30% of bugs causes, to dismiss any language that is sold as improving safety on systems programming.
It is Rust today, it was Ada, Object Pascal and Modula-2 in the early 80's, and anything in between since then
It seems like rust has passed some tipping point to wider adoption that I haven't seen in any of those other languages. Yes flight safety stuff went to ada, but much of that has now gone to modern c++ subsets with lots of testing. And car safety stuff has been misra c for quite a while I think? Google has released a rust based os, the browser I'm typing in has a rust css layout engine. I don't think rewrite it in rust is going to be some sweeping fire, it is too much work, but I could see driver writers and kernel authors migrating the whole over a long period. Ship of Theseus style.
Edit: or as part of the webapp Armageddon wasm and wasm runtimes all get written in rust and the os running all those webapps and wasm services atrophies to a tiny thing that eventually gets rewritten itself as something(s) non linuxlike.
Agreed, my point was simply that ada never really had the adoption levels that rust already enjoys. Yes ada was everywhere in safety of flight, but that is fairly niche comapred to a language that will be part of the linux kernel next year.
