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When will we switch to memory safe (but reasonably performant) languages like Go/Rust/C#?

Performance critical sections could remain in C/C++, but MOST code doesn’t need the kind of performance C/C++ provides.

Hopefully C/C++ will go the way of assembly: present in TINY doses.

I don't think you need to explain to Mozilla about Just Rewriting It to Rust

Didn't they recently fire the Rust team?

While they did let go the folks who were working on Rust (see the other comments in this thread) they are still members of the Rust foundation, and folks still write code in Rust at Mozilla. For example you have this from last week https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/dVU...

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