"Unless something odd happens, it [Rust] will make it into 6.1 ... replacement for C and C++, particularly for systems-level programming, infrastructure projects, embedded software development ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and ... t even make an elevator that works without crashing!” Many such crashes, Hoare knew, are due to problems with how a program uses memory.

Microsoft can't just throw away older Windows code, but the company's Project Verona aims to make older low-level components ... that its trials with Rust over C and C++ to remove insecure code ...