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Surprisingly thin endorsement. The central argument seems to be that one has gotten rid of custom data structures and raw buffers, but these are typical for C and of course any language with higher abstraction power and a standard library will have them in there.

In this sense you could have switched from C to almost anything else and have gotten similar benefits. Finding bugs and improving the design is typical for refactoring and redesign projects.

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The point here is using types that are still fast and memory efficient without having to resort to brittle pointer magic full of gotchas. You still have raw buffers, and they're still efficient, but you just don't have to do malloc or memcpy all over the place to make them work the way you want.

The way I see it, much of Rust, and this project specifically, is not about moving to a higher abstraction... It's about moving to the right abstraction.

Yes, I could have switched to just about anything else, and end up with an even higher level code. But that would defeat the purpose of keeping it small, fast, and memory conscious.

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