I know, but since we are not going to get any UNIX/POSIX variant out there replaced with C++, let alone Rust, we better get ways of improving its safety. Even it means just pilling up safety band-aids.

Even Microsoft caved in regarding not supporting C newer than C89, and now have on their Visual Studio roadmap to improve the C support beyond what ANSI C++ requires.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/6mqd2e/why_is_msvc_usu...

They also rewrote their User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) from COM/C++ back into C, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/wd...

I am really looking forward to Joe Duffy's keynote at Rustcon, regarding systems programming improvements.