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Any language with native code compilers can be used for 90% of the stuff C is still used, not only Rust.

I think due to the rise in VM based runtimes and lost of investment in alternative languages (e.g. Modula-2....) many developers created the myth that C and C++ are the only languages with native code compilers.

This problem with LESSOPEN would exist even if less was written in Rust. The same goes for the strings command.

All the more reason to use memory safe languages as far up the stack as you can go.

Rust can solve the first problem.

I sure hope so. But the language needs more mileage on it to be confident that the checking works.