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> Rust meanwhile seems to be following some "no standard library" philosophy.

As an embedded dev, I personally find it very useful to compile Rust programs without a standard library. I would not use C# or Python for an embedded project for the reasons you probably prefer them for your projects.

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The guide that NASA put out for spaceflight systems was on HN earlier this year and one of the rules is "no heap allocations; all memory must be declared and fixed size for the life of the app." Isn't Rust the ideal language for that kind of limitation? We are talking C, C++, Rust, Zig as options I would guess; Rust certainly seems the ideal from those options.

But you gotta admit people trying to build GUI libraries and using linked lists don't fit.

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