[pjmlp]

C++ has hardly replaced C in some domains after 40 years trying, and it is mostly compatible with C at source level, build exactly to fit into existing C toolchains.

Some of those companies, like Google, Microsoft and NVidia, are heavily invested into C++, ISO C++ and selling C++ based products.

To use a common example that one puts against any technology that Microsoft touches, when will Office use Rust on its foundation and extension APIs?

Are you aware that Apple has rather created their own safe C dialect for iBoot firmware instead of using Rust?

[oblio]

A big company can push forward on many fronts in parallel :-)

[pjmlp]

Indeed, as long as it makes sense in the long run.

If we can have Singularity/Midori back, with a microkernel in Rust, it would be quite nice, but yeah, I guess that is more of wishful thinking.