Comment by chuckadams

> It's like a handbag whose main claim to being a premium product isn't workmanship or materials, but that it has Gucci on its side.

Knockoffs aside, the latter is intended to serve as a proxy for the former. I too will be happy when Rust is the boring everyday choice, but in 2025 we still see new buffer overflows every day. And if I'm picking a library, I still want to know if it's in the same language as the app it's going into.