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This might be a little radical, but I really wish google stopped acting like they own anything they want because "they could buy you and your family".

It seems to me like this decision is being made purely because Rust is hot right now, and not because it makes so much sense that its the best decision moving forward.

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Or maybe it's because people want to build software that is more secure and reliable (something which C does not have a great track record for)? Google are not the main instigator of this initiative, they are adding their support for it.

You mean like firefox ? OTOH there was a thread about coreutils written in Rust that crash reliably.

If the crashes are intentional panics caused because of detection of a memory safety issue, more crashes there are actually good; in a C program they would be silent buffer overflows or memory corruption that don't manifest until later, or may not manifest at all until it becomes a security issue.

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