<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Rust, touted as a safer alternative to C, is struggling to meet the needs of safety-critical systems in practice.</li><li>Despite its compile-time guarantees and ownership checking, Rust in the embedded world is perceived as a beta test rather than a reliable solution.</li><li>Engineers are hesitant to fully adopt Rust for critical systems due to concerns about toolchain certification, reliance on unstable features, and prevalent use of 'unsafe' code.</li><li>While Rust shows potential for improvement, it currently functions more as an experimental language rather than a proven solution for mission-critical applications.</li></ul>

[rant] Rust: The Safety Language That Still Isn’t Safe Enough

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