Rust Is Overkill

Rust frenzy fueled massive software rewrites across the board. Was it overkill?

Rust is really only justified when implementing:

• Safety-critical systems

• Highly concurrent runtimes

• Distributed system protocols

When used elsewhere Rust leads to unwelcome consequences:

• Developers tend to audit unsafe-free contributions less thoroughly

• Refactoring is less likely to take place with the first pass often being final

• Readability compares to that of cryptic compiler IR rather than tractable developer code