[rienbdj]

From the outside looking in, this all feels like too little too late. Big tech has decided on Rust for future infrastructure projects. C++ will get QoL improvements… one day and the committees seem unable to keep everyone happy or disappoint one stake holder. C++ will be around forever, but will it be primarily legacy?

[20k]

Yes. Unfortunately the committee has completely abandoned safety at this point. Even memory/thread safety profiles have been indefinitely postponed. The latest ghost safety lifetimes thing is completely unimplementable

There literally isn't a plan or direction in place to add any way to compete with Rust in the safety space currently. They've got maybe until c++29 to standardise lifetimes, and then C++ will transition to a legacy language

[direwolf20]

Using containers and std::string for everything eliminates the majority of safety bugs.

[mathisfun123]

> Big tech has decided on Rust for future infrastructure projects. C++ will get QoL improvements…

when people say this do they have like any perspective? there are probably more cpp projects started in one week (in big tech) than rust projects in a whole year. case in point: at my FAANG we have probably like O(10) rust projects and hundreds of cpp projects.

[ofrzeta]

> Big tech has decided on Rust for future infrastructure projects.

as they say "citation needed"