Why Rust for safe systems programming?

[Nick Treleaven]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 06:22:01 UTC, bauss wrote:
> Well, it still doesn't disable the GC since the runtime still 
> loads it.

Doesn't really matter, the important thing is that no collections 
are done if no GC allocations are made, and @nogc enforces this 
(in @safe code at least).

> Also you can still use the GC in @nogc code if you use 
> `assumeNoGC` so it's not entirely gone.

That's not @safe. Anything can happen in @system code.