> and the world would certainly be a better place if everybody coding C or Go switched to Rust
Perhaps. Let's engage in a thought experiment. Sorry for moving slightly off-topic, but the line I quoted made me think about this.
Someone fashions a magic wand, which you can wave over C, C++, and Go programs / libraries to instantly re-materialize them as idiomatic Rust, while preserving all of the "good" output they produce, and simultaneously removing the "bad": all memory safety and data race related bugs they exhibit.
You get to use this magic wand on any program you like, instantaneously. You do so, creating linux-rs, glibc-rs, chromium-rs, etc. in the process. You cargo build all of this new software and replace the old C / C++ versions with it, in-place.
In the brave new Rust-powered software world, does your day-to-day computing experience change? It is materially better?
Speaking for myself, the answer is "no", unfortunately. Perhaps this message is coming from a place of frustration with my own day-to-day computing experience. Most software I use is much more fundamentally broken, in a way in which doesn't seem to be dictated the programming language of choice. The brokenness has to do with poor design, way too many layers of absolutely incomprehensible complexity, incompatibility, and so forth. I don't remember the last time I saw a Linux kernel oops or data corruption on my machine, but I am waiting _seconds_ to type a character into Slack sometimes.
I like most of the ideas behind Rust (I don't like the language itself and some of the choices the authors made, but that is another discussion). However, I think there is only so much you can fix with the shiny and sharp new tools, because it seems to me that most issues have little to do with low level matters of programming language or technology, but with higher level matters of design, taste, tolerance for slowness / brokenness / incompatibility, etc.