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So you're saying that for almost everything Rust is not a reasonable choice. You then state that a reason for this is because people don't have to worry about lifetimes because it has a GC.

There are applications where a garbage collector is simply unnecessary and possibly extremely detrimental.

And if you get down to it you'll find an amazing truth: once you learn how writing programs is about as easy without a garbage collector than it is with one and your programs run a lot faster.

Using an automatic transmission is a lot easier but manual is not hard and you save a lot of gas.




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