> It is also equally odd to me that people want to cling so hard to C, when something like Rust (and other modern languages for that matter), have so much nicer eco systems, memory safety aside.

Simplicity? I learned Rust years ago (when it was still pre release), and when i now look at a lot of codebases, i can barely get a sense what is going on, with all the new stuff that got introduced. Its like looking at something familiar and different at the same time.

I do not feel the same when i see Go code, as so little has changed / got added to it. The biggest thing is probably generics and that is so rarely used.

For me, this is, what i think, appeals for C programmers. The fact that the language does not evolve and has been static.

If we compare this to C++, that has become a mess over time, and i know i am getting downvoted for this, Rust feels like its going way too much in the Rust++ route.

Like everybody and their dog wants something added, to make Rust do more things, but at the same moment, it feels like its repeating the C++ history. I have seen the same issue with other languages that started simple, and then becomes monsters of feature sets. D comes to mind.

So when you see the codebase between developers, the different styles because of the use of different feature sets, creates this disconnect and makes it harder for people to read other code. While with C, because of the language limits, your more often down a rather easier way to read the same code. If that makes sense?