@thephd As a cranky aging C hacker, I do mostly agree with this and I've been slowly working through writing a Rust kernel for RISC-V to get used to Rust more and more. And I do think the time is coming. There are lots of things I'd now write in either Rust or Go. Linguistically, this is the way forward.
There are still some things I wish Rust would focus more on. IIRC, the ABI is still not in a state where you can distribute a dynamic library and trust it'll link every time.