[mwcampbell]

Counterpoint: When I was on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft, one of my most brilliant colleagues gave a presentation about what to look for when doing code reviews, and he emphasized three main categories: C++, COM (Microsoft's Component Object Model), and concurrency. Rust eliminates many of the issues in the first and third categories. And yes, we were writing modern C++ as much as we could in that legacy codebase; by 2019 we were using several C++17 features, as well as the latest C++ utility libraries for working with COM and WinRT. Given the state of the Rust windows crate, that team (which both I and that colleague left in late 2020) might even be able to use Rust in new code. I'm sure that would make him happy.