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> since its Rust™, achieving cross-platform will probably be several-folds more work than it would be in C,

Why would you think that? Rust is a more expressive and powerful language than C. If anything, I'd say it would be easier. Platform APIs are not all in C either.

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> Why would you think that?

FFI? I don't recall stating Rust is less expressive than C, the language looses its notorious "memory safe" feature as unsafe is called often when performing low level sys calls.

> Platform APIs are not all in C either.

unless you are absolutely talking about web development, this is not true at all.

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