I keep seeing Rust show up in places it never could have five years ago. Kernel-adjacent tools. Security agents. Parsers that used to be a pile of careful C and comments warning you not to touch anything. It's not because developers suddenly got more patient or because everyone decided memory safety was fun. The cost equation changed, and AI coding is a big part of why.

Source: AI Coding, Rust, and the Linux Security Tradeoffs We Have to Manage