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Moving using a 70's technology breaks things. Rust is tested already on other OSes like Windows, Mac (or iOS) and Android and solves several pitfalls of C and C++. Some quotes from the Android team [1]:

"To date, there have been zero memory safety vulnerabilities discovered in Android’s Rust code."

"Safety measures make memory-unsafe languages slow"

Not saying Rust is the perfect solution to every problem, but it is definitely not an outlandish proposition to use it where it makes sense.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-language...



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