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by pjmlp 1883 days ago
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.

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.