"with equivalent high level libraries for data structures" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Getting and managing those high level libraries and data structures is much easier in Rust. I'd also argue that C's type system needlessly complicates correctly using those high level libraries and data structures compared to their Rust counterparts.
Yes, but the environment for this specific program is the linux kernel, where most of the high level libraries for data structures already exist in C already, and the Rust code is pretty constrained due to the existing limitations. A lot of, what I assume to be, data structure fanciness in Rust comes through non standard crates, and the kernel doesn't allow that as far as I remember.
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"with equivalent high level libraries for data structures" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Getting and managing those high level libraries and data structures is much easier in Rust. I'd also argue that C's type system needlessly complicates correctly using those high level libraries and data structures compared to their Rust counterparts.
Yes, but the environment for this specific program is the linux kernel, where most of the high level libraries for data structures already exist in C already, and the Rust code is pretty constrained due to the existing limitations. A lot of, what I assume to be, data structure fanciness in Rust comes through non standard crates, and the kernel doesn't allow that as far as I remember.