jvtbatman

What is sad about using C? I'm using plenty of C programs/applicactions/tools each day which work great!

I'm also very interested in any more information regarding this since I'll be doing my thesis work on XDP soon and would like to use Rust!

Generally, I'd say that the less strict the compiler/interpreter is, the worse code you'll end up with. In my experience, Python needs a lot of external checks (i.e. linting, static analysis) to help the programmer write code that actually work as intended (and JS probably is worse).

As John Carmack said: "...if you have a large enough codebase, any class of error that is syntactically legal probably exists there."