I’m glad that there other efforts for memory-safety going on concurrently, and we as a software community should absolutely continue to invest in those. I also agree that rust is not suited for all circumstances that people try to use it in - but I would contend that the set of situations where rust is absolutely the right choice is non-empty. I say this as part of a ~20 person team, rewriting business-critical software in Rust, where most of the engineers I talk with are glad they’re writing rust.