The community has been very supportive of the gccrs (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs) project, which is the main project to write a Rust compiler written in C.

I wouldn't say very supportive at all. It often gets bashed whenever some news about it is posted on r/rust for example.

It's in C++, not C

> Remembered this article... https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-repl...

Remembering Drew Devault is the Fox News of programming bloggers. He exhibits the same sort of bad faith obtuseness, and knee-jerk neck beard tech conservatism, that makes me/many want to scream.

First, his thesis is risible. "Rust is not a good C replacement". Note, he does not mean replace C code with Rust code, but Rust, the language, literally replacing C, the language. Ignoring, perhaps, Rust doesn't want to "replace" C, because we have C!

Next, see the bulleted text. Upon each topic something interesting might be said re: Rust, but instead they all serve a garbage thesis that Rust is not the 50 year old language that the world is currently built upon.

My favorite, though, is the final bullet:

> Safety. Yes, Rust is more safe. I don’t really care. In light of all of these problems, I’ll take my segfaults and buffer overflows.

And everyone wants to be a cowboy when they are 8 years old.

What does that article have to do with this article? The author of the latter article even says that they don’t enjoy writing C, which is kind of the opposite of what your article says