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by User3456335 824 days ago
Yes, but all of these are essentially all because the existing code is already based on C(++). We should be able to move to Rust sooner than people think.
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Should ≠ will.

We still have Fortran and Cobol. It’s easy to imagine that Rust will replace C++ Real Soon Now, because you just have to imagine that all of the legacy code disappears, and Rust gets all the tooling support that C++ has.