Shitloads of already existing libraries. For example I'm not going to start using it for Arduino-y things until all the peripherals I want have drivers written in Rust.

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littlestymaar 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Why? You can interact with C libraries from Rust just fine.

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LtWorf 4 hours ago | parent [-]

But you now have more complexity and no extra safety.

	▲	pornel 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If you create wrappers that provide additional type information, you do get extra safety and nicer interfaces to work with.
	▲	timeon 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You have extra safety in new code.