> I don't understand why people criticizing Rust tend so heavily to let perfect be the enemy of good.

if you've convinced yourself that you're special and all problems with c are solved by trying harder, clearly everyone else is just lazy. with that line of logic, there's nothing to fix with c. rust is not just redundant, but also aggravating, since its popularity causes the cognitive dissonance to start creeping in.

maybe i can make mistakes? should we improve tooling somewhat? no, it's the children who are wrong.