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nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
The transition of virtually any code base in the world to safer, better languages, such as Rust, is not a matter of “if”, it’s a matter of “when”.
Putting aside the White House recently identifying unsafe languages as a national security risk, there is also the fact that all software will become strictly unmaintanable in a decade simply because the most skilled people in the upcoming generation will not be competing for C++ jobs, they’ll be competing for Rust jobs!
This is why Linus Torvalds actually admitted that the main reason for introducing Rust into the Linux kernel is actually in order to enfranchise younger talent! Look it up.
The transition to Rust for all the world’s kernels, drivers, microcontrollers and more isn’t going to be just motivated by safety concerns (themselves already more than enough), but also by the fact that if you don’t transition, you won’t have the best engineers, today in their teens, willing to work for you in ten years to carry your stack into the future. You will therefore open up your entire empire to being replaced by the upstarts that will actually take these engineers in and let them shine.