Yes, I've seen lots of quality code written by people who tried to do so over the last 40 years.
But as I said: I have never seen a silver bullet hit.
Rust is absolutely a step forward, but it is not a silver bullet either.
And as I already said, I have nothing against it's use in FreeBSD.
The only thing I resist is wasting time and effort on importing it into the FreeBSD tree, just because we as a project have this "src or forget it" attitude.
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