“critical software” here refers to weapons systems, spying systems, government surveillance systems, cyberwarfare software, etc.

Do you work on critical software

their reasoning is that rust (and perhaps others) that can be used in place of c or c++ have stronger compile time memory and thread safety checking which are two major sources of bugs and exploit vectors. So it’s not like they’re infiltrating the language in this case the way they would with crypto.

Right but AI translating of all government code is good. This is what you want, especially if shit goes down. Dont tell your enemy to stop pouring the kool aid.

Nah, that kind of reasoning is like “nazis think people should get armed, so we shouldn’t.”

It’s not really a strong point. C++ has its place for graphics programming and gamedev and C has its place for embedded, but Rust would be a better choice for something like a cryptography app to help revolutionaries communicate for example.