No, we're not. Like I said, this can change in future competitions. It's no big deal if the first one is too easy. If the first one is too hard we may not get submissions and won't know if it is due to lack of interests or if it is too hard.

My baseline for determining this was basically that almost all of the underhanded C submissions use tricks that just can't work in Rust.

Furthermore, remember that the code will be run through clippy too. Many of the gotchas (e.g. Option::iter()) that can be used to create potential underhandedness should get caught by clippy.

But yes, we fully hope to feed back any findings into the compiler/libraries/clippy.

  > The contest may prove otherwise.

Isn't testing that assumption a big point of the contest?