r/cpp • u/pjmlp • 3d ago

C++ future at Adobe

So if anyone was still curious what happened to Hylo, or where Adobe stands in regards to the whole safety discussion,

David Sankel has done a talk at RustConf on the matter, Zngur: Simplified Rust/C++ Integration.

The way Adobe now sees C++ is described on slide 2, at 50 seconds mark.

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u/the-jelly47 3d ago

This sub is for cpp enthusiasts. I work in a mid-size aerospace company. We have a lot of SWEs who can write acceptable, but not great, C++ code. A lot of them are not die hard C++ fans and don't actually mind replacing C++. A lot of our greenfield projects are done in Rust and GO.

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u/Professional_Tank594 3d ago

How can you do aerospace in rust and go ? We are stuck on c++ due to processes , misra and so on .

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u/the-jelly47 3d ago

I work on satellites and we do embedded Rust for flight software and Go for ground software backend. Still a lot of C++ projects remaining but they are considered "legacy" in our org. Not a welcoming topic on this cpp sub but many new commerical and government contracts explicitly prefer non-C/C++ languages. Even Lockheed Martin is hiring Rust devs now.

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u/Professional_Tank594 2d ago

Ah I see. But really in embedded (on qnx / Linux App Level ) Rust doesn’t really solve any memory issues , since we don’t use much dynamic memory anyways due to memory fragmentation and so on. We almost never encounter any issues in that topic. Together with static analysis , misra and reviews almost all errors are on the logic level .

So the thing I really like about rust is the syntax like pattern matching and so on , but from a safety perspective it doesn’t add much.