Maybe this is the skeptic in me but this push from C to Rust just feels like a massive cash grab by contractors. Think of all the money that will be spent finding all the C code source, rebuilding their build environments, translating all the code to Rust then supporting it all for decades to come.

Billions will be spent on contractors, only for it to likely get halfway done when the money/will runs out.

@mainframed767 As always in security, prioritization based on risk assessment should be key, along with alternative solutions. This recent post is very relevant: https://alexgaynor.net/2024/aug/30/impact-of-memory-safety-on-sandboxing/

@mainframed767 Do you mean Go?

I mean Zig?

I mean Elixir?

I mean…

@dexter look, they probably tried converting all the COBOL to JAVA 10-20 years ago, and now they're stuck with COBOL and JAVA.