[jimwhite42]

> Microsoft just announced 10 million dollar effort to make Rust their default systems language for their infrastructure

This seems like an incredibly low amount of money to achieve something like that.

[pjmlp]

Might be, yet it sends a strong signal into the industry, specially coming from from one of the companies behind C++.

Similar to how clang slowed down as Apple and Google decided to focus on their languages, and key contributors abandoned clang.