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> Those languages have existed for 20+ years so if they were ruled out as part of the original decision making then they probably still aren't applicable.

There are huge C++ code bases that are 15+ years old and are still actively maintained because the cost of a rewrite is too high for something that still solves the problem well enough.

Most of the large C++ projects I've worked on were written in C++ because it was the most common and mainstream language given the CPU and memory constraints of that time. We have significantly more powerful CPUs now, especially considering multicore computing, and easily 5-10x more RAM than 15 years ago. Java/Kotlin, C#, Go, TypeScript, Swift etc., are perfectly applicable to many more problem domains where C++ once dominated. I can easily agree that many C++ projects would be better off transitioning to a fully garbage-collected language than to Rust.