Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022
&gt;  Low-level Operating Systems Sr. User Experience Researcher<p>Wow, I didn&#x27;t even know this job existed. IMO Rust as a C++ replacement is fine, Rust as a C replacement has more trade-offs than I still care to make. C is still far simpler (you can still read K&amp;R in one day and keep most of the language in your head), has faster compile times, and the pain points <i>cough macros</i> are still often pain points in Rust.<p>I think the biggest thing is that systems programming still requires a language that gets out of the way so you can focus on very technical problem domains where what the hardware is actually doing really matters. Rust is a language designed to get in your way and force you to create type abstractions. Adding too many abstraction can be exceedingly dangerous in an environment where not having a full view of how memory and hardware registers are laid out leads to even worse errors than just buffer overflows. IMO Rust makes this type of programmer more difficult just as C++ does.