I have been following such efforts (esp. of MS) in C++ for years - progress is so slow.
Feels like a slug that halfs it's speed regularly and thus will never arrive at the finish line
Me too, however I am the opinion that I rather having something that improves the status quo than nothing at all, specially because there are millions of C and C++ lines of code that no matter what will never be rewritten.
I will consider Microsoft is fully into Rust when Azure Sphere supports Rust instead of being a C only SDK, despite its security marketing.
I will consider Microsoft is fully into Rust when Azure Sphere supports Rust instead of being a C only SDK, despite its security marketing.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things/de...
The first step in reducing those 70% is to actually use the tools that exist, but unfortunelly the macho attitute is still quite prevalent.
https://isocpp.org/files/papers/CppDevSurvey-2021-04-summary...
Those that are open to embrace Rust, are most likely already using static analyzers.