Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Yup. Different languages, different strengths, different weaknesses. C *encourages* you to play with pointers, which means even experienced programmers use them when they're not necessary. And if you play with knives when you don't need to, you WILL, on average, get cut. Sometimes badly.

I'm sure Rust has its faults. My favourite language, DataBasic, has quite a few. But one of the biggest flaws in a language is using it in an environment for which it is not suited. C *was* brilliant as a low-level system language. Hardware has evolved. C is no longer low-level. People still use it as a low-level language and get badly sliced by the impedence mismatch between what C thinks the hardware is, and what the hardware really is. And it's the easy access to pointers that encourages this dangerous behaviour.

Cheers,
Wol