To be fair, Cargo defaults to using lockfiles, so you'd have to go out of your way to hit both your points at the same time.

very true, some hyperbole to make a point.

"lack of newness" is a characteristic many will expend untold hours to extinguish. to my perspective, the "rewrite it in Rust crowd" is the peak; all non-Rust code is soiled, and worthy of replacement.

(it is very possible that the "rewrite in Rust" movement is just a guerrilla marketing project)

I don't really care for Rust, but all non-memory safe code could benefit from being replaced. This does, for some people, mean rewriting it in Rust because C and C++ make it harder to achieve the goal of memory safety.