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> I honestly don't know of a big tech company that is happy with the idea of just continuing to use C++ indefinitely

Every game company ever. And Google.

The Google team I work on (ChromeOS, crosvm[0] specifically) has been transitioning to Rust for a lot of our new services (mostly crosvm and stuff that interacts with it) and I couldn't be happier :)

[0] https://google.github.io/crosvm/

The claim was "continuing to use C++ indefinitely." For that not to be true they'd have to be looking at replacing C++ entirely. Moving everything to rust/go/whatever. Do you foresee Google doing that?

Google as a company? Not necessarily, I don't have a crystal ball.

ChromeOS as a product? Maybe. (note: not Chrome)

ChromeOS platform internals? I totally could. You don't just rewrite everything from C++ to Rust, because that wouldn't make much sense, but more and more new service/products are being spun up that use Rust (we have docs and stuff https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/r...).

This is not accurate.

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