On the audio it sounded like he went out of his way to deny that Mozilla has any plans to rewrite existing C++.
It may be that Rust is being designed as if that were a goal, but let's not start any rumors here.
It may be that Rust is being designed as if that were a goal, but let's not start any rumors here.
Of course, if it turns out to work amazingly well and they can port all their old code (or interface with it) with relative ease, there's no reason not to jump ship from the hellfires of C++ compilation. They've had major issues with that lately, after all.