Comment by pjmlp
2 months ago
I have followed it from the outside, including talks at Rust Nation.
However the reality you described on the ground is quite different from e.g. Rust Nation UK 2025 talks, or those being done by Victor Ciura.
It seems more in line with the rejections that took place against previous efforts regarding Singularity, Midori, Phoenix compiler toolchain, Longhorn,.... only to be redone with WinRT and COM, in C++ naturally.
Because neither C nor C++ creates friction.
The whole memory safety chapter is a human problem first and foremost.
Some humans haven’t written a memory-safety bug in decades, but it requires a discipline the recent hire never acquired.
I always advocated fixing issues at their root. Humans write bugs, fix the humans. Somehow this was always regarded as taboo ever since I started at Microsoft in 2013.