> It is not fun but frustrating to work in Rust, and contrary to C, you are limited by the language/compiler on what you can do.
People who have had prior exposure to C tend to find Rust frustrating.
People who have not had prior exposure to C tend to find it fun, and an average programmer of this sort can fearlessly write bare-metal code that beats the code of the best C programmers writing in C in safety and rivals it in performance.
Systems programming has been fundamentally changed by Rust. It's become as accessible and democratized as web programming, no longer the sole province of a cadre of elite C programmers.