DARPA initiates a new program to automate the translation of the world’s highly vulnerable legacy C code to the inherently safer Rust programming language

I actually find Rust pretty OK. The only things that I don't like about Rust is its quirky syntax. And its primitive implementation of OOP. And its compiler. And cargo. And the ecosystem...

OK well maybe I don't find Rust actually OK. Why did we have to invent a whole new language if we could improve standards and compilers for existing languages?