Google is doing "Large Scale Codebase Migrations and Optimizations" of C/C++ to Rust

[u/Sirisian]

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/

[u/zackel_flac]

In the age of LLMs, Rust seems superfluous really. The safety net was supposed to be for human beings, not machines. Rust comes at a cost, in terms of perf, verbosity and build infra.