[markmm]

Rust is a terrible language. It has an identity crisis. Thinks it's a high level but also system level language. You cant be both. The unix philosophy always wins. Do one thing well. C is the perfect system lang and Java/C#/Lisp/Python etc are the cream of high level langs.

[jaza]

Rust has always clearly labelled itself as first and foremost a systems programming language. It strictly maintains performance and safety as its top priorities. It doesn't go out of its way to be easy to learn or to use, compared with higher level languages. Doesn't seem to me like there's any identity crisis.

[jjice]

Why can't you be both? The "high level" features rust offers to make it feel like a modern language are just abstractions, nothing that makes it directly inferior to C. Allowing for modern constructs without sacrificing performance is a good thing.