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Let's also admit every language before Rust hasn't succeeded at out right replacing the vast majority of C/C++, so it becomes it's own form of conservatism/bias. This post is coming from one of the few companies that actually does complete large scale rewrites of things. I'm curious/excited to see how it goes for them.

And I have that C/C++ bias: I don't enjoy programming in rust as much as I do C, but I don't like doing lots of new things.

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> Let's also admit every language before Rust hasn't succeeded at out right replacing the vast majority of C/C++,

Many languages expelled C/C++ from the domains they were once kings of entirely. It used to be "the language" for many, many things.

There is hardly that much C and C++ left on GUI frameworks and distributed computing, other than existing infrastructure from projects that are decades old.

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