Comment by yencabulator

Sure. Now import a useful performant B+tree in C from a reusable library, while enforcing type safety for your keys and values.

Lots of things C chose to use intrusive pointers and custom data structures for, you would program very differently in a different language.

I'm an old C neckbeard and I find Rust a great experience. Some of the arguments against it sound like people are complaining about how hard it is to run pushing a bicycle.