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Re:Rust wont save us, but its ideas will by drakmaniso on Friday February 09, 2024 @03:11AM (#39312595)
That would only work if the new versions were willing to break backward compatibility. The safety (and correctness) of a language is not about what it can do, but what it cannot.
Re:Rust wont save us, but its ideas will by berkes on Friday February 09, 2024 @04:17AM (#39313003)
And about what it did in the past.

Because that built habits. Has large bodies of education and documentation around it, and often even tooling (like snippets, ai completion, linters, static analysis)