White House recommending rust instead of "memory unsafe" languages like C/C++ is poisoned apple, a huge L for the rust community.
Now we know all the "(re)written in rust" memes were actually legit psyops.
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The federal government is literally trying to take away ours freedoms by pulling us further away from the metal and our liberties of accessing raw memory however we want.
There are plenty of memory safe languages that are C derivatives, https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/safer-languages
This explains why all Rust developers are furries. It's all part of their p-l-a-n.