Comment by oblio
9 hours ago
If you're developing, you generally have control over the development environment (+/-) and you can install things. Plus that already reduces the audience: set of people with oddball hardware (as someone here put it) intersected with the set of people with locked down development environments.
Let alone the fact that conceptually people with locked down environments are precisely those would really want the extra safety offered by Rust.
I know that real life is messy but if we don't keep pressing, nothing improves.
> If you're developing, you generally have control over the development environment
If you're developing something individually, then sure, you have a lot of control. When you're developing as part of an organization or a company, you typically don't. And if there's non-COTS hardware involved, you are even more likely not to have control.