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The industry did not abandon C and C++ for Ada in the past, likely it will do the same to Rust. Not to mention C and C++ are both evolving and their toolchains are getting much better nowadays.

After using Rust for a while, I actually decided to stay with to c/c++ for the rest of my career.

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Only because there weren't affordable compilers, everyone was cloning UNIX, and there weren't goverment mandates for the industry at large.

There are still COBOL and Fortran developers, C and C++ won't go away tomorrow, even if the goverment says so, but it will be harder to use them in security clearance contexts, similar to hazardous goods.

> I actually decided to stay with to c/c++ for the rest of my career.

Care to expand?

I’m not op of course, but from a career perspective you have to make choices based on what will give you the most opportunities in the future.

Right now Rust is technically safer language but it doesn’t have the same amount of job postings and career opportunities as C++. That’s just an inertia problem.

The conundrum is if you jump in early and risk the language becoming yet another language or do you wait and see.

I haven’t coded C++ in 4 years, but my understanding is that the language is evolving to answer the threat Rust poses to it.

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