Comment by AndyKelley
5 hours ago
Microsoft and Google are on the Rust Foundation board:
https://rustfoundation.org/about/
They benefit by having more of the industry using technologies they control.
Studies from independent third parties would be less biased.
More FUD and guilt by association. Microsoft and Google are also major contributors to the C and C++ standards bodies. Microsoft also has C# and Google has Kotlin. I think claiming they control Rust is weak given the community organization structure within the project and claiming the studies are inherently biased because they provide some funding is exceedingly weak.
IMHO the onus is on you to present any contrary studies showing Rust's safety profile isn't as good as the studies indicate when compared with C++ or to demonstrate where Zig's safety profile in real world complex environments stacks up.
We can disagree on opinions, but you can't discard all experimental evidence in favor of no evidence, especially when the safety profile of Rust is backed by solid theoretical models as to why it would be safer.
To that point, AWS and Cloudflare have also adopted the Rust language for all new projects. I think that says something about the recognition that it really is much harder to write trivial memory vulnerabilities.