>In my mind, a more advanced memory-safe system will likely overtake Rust and become adequate for the task of implementing codecs and other low level tools (perhaps integrated with a theorem prover and a proof assistant that lets the programmer clarify the assertions, preconditions, postconditions and invariants). However, I will stick with C for now. Ultimately, a lot of this boils down to personal preference, so try to not harass strangers online for their choices.

I seen this in basically every "I prefer C for this use case" blog post and its always unconvincing, because C is much worse for safety then Rust, so I always think the author would find other problems with these next tools because its just goal posts moving.