

Also, do we just trust all these random libraries? Not just about malicious code, but also what kind of quality/usability are you including?
Big companies do not want to trust open package repositories. They attempt to take countermeasures (but how much can you do?)
The huge benefit of the standard library is that I can always trust it, and it will always be the idiomatic way to do things.
Rust is straight up better than C. It’s safer and less prone to errors.
It’s not feasible to convert the entire Linux codebase at once. So your options are to either have a mixed codebase, or stick with effectively Cobol into 2020.