Why Rust for safe systems programming?

[Kagamin]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 06:51:36 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> Yeah, things like `@nogc` and `-betterC` are kludgy to me. I 
> hope one day for an opt-in language where you just pay for what 
> you use without any special attributes or compiler switches.

@nogc serves a different purpose: it enforces restriction that 
you don't end up using a feature even if you accidentally try to.