It is, and C/C++ are used in so many areas which are not system programming right? Being a scientific Python backbone is one of them for example. My claim was that it is nothing out-of-ordinary. In fact, I really dislike the article's somewhat evangelist attempt to target newbies. These so-called benefits existed and do exist in so many other languages. The only thing that Rust comes with is memory safety which on closer look is actually an illusion and is a pretty evil one. I would praise Rust for speed, yes. For ecosystem, yes. But that's it.

"My claim was that it is nothing out-of-ordinary". Well I guess will agree to disagree there are pretty prominent cases of very capable people trying to do a project in C++ and failing and then leveraging Rust and actually delivering.

And it would be great to read about such projects. But I have not heard about such. Maybe I would change my opinion.

Mozilla namely: "By 2017, Mozilla had made two previous attempts to parallelize the style system using C++. Both had failed." but they were able to complete it in Rust.

I would be really surprised if they failed to do it with the language they invented.

They is not exactly same set of people