Honestly, I don't think you should take anything the author of this wrote seriously, the most charitable interpretation is that most of their work is a form of satire.
I am a lot more serious in my other posts (such as this one: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2022-media or this one: https://xeiaso.net/blog/hlang-nguh), but sometimes I have to write satirical things otherwise people won't get the point.
Believe what you want though.
The common reason our most senior engineers tell me isn't even that it's too late to switch, it's that "C++ is perfectly fine as long as you use it right" and "it doesn't matter what the outside world uses" and "performance."
Here is the new version (same links):
> <Cadey> I don't know about the code quality standards of the sudo project, but overall I don't see them doing any concerted effort to try to migrate away from C and there are frequent security vulnerabilities that result in attackers getting root access anyways. I really wish the industry as a whole would take languages like Rust a bit more seriously and start actually moving towards programs being safer to use because security vulnerabilities in core infrastructure result in emergency patches. It was disappointing to see an attempt at using Rust in an important Python library torpedoed by users of obscure architectures not supporting Rust. Maybe the solution there is to use WebAssembly as a compile target instead of making everything be native code. I wouldn't wish hppa's reverse stack growth on anyone trying to write a compiler though.
Also the overall article was quite interesting and I think the template is really accessible and fun to read. If I knew there would be a bunch of ancillary complaining this thread, I probably would have kept quiet!