All wrong! It's because Rust is WOKE!

It's just the obvious thing. C and C++ don't have safeguards against dangerous programming mistakes. Programming languages exist that do. There are to this day still software vulnerabilities being caused by subtly incorrect code that C and C++ require being treated as legitimate.

have you like, tried Rust?

comrades pls don't think Rust is bad just because the bad guys have realized it's good

also, separate comment, what are you generally building? if you're writing Go because it's network code, you might want to look into Elixir. It's GC but the behavior of BEAM is more soft-RT friendly due to its history in telephony, you might be more at home there

I'm actually in favor of this. It's a really good idea, and I hope the state uses it for all the important databases they're gonna use to put us in the camps.

Please dont be a hater. Comrade AI might just save lives here.

that seems like it wouldn't work very well except maybe for small programs. the kinds of bugs they're trying to catch and prevent here may need substantial changes to the program's design in order to prevent. Like the borrow checker literally does not exist in C and it is not a thing people thought about when writing asynchronous C code. Maybe the AI will take a shortcut and write a bunch of unsafe rust code, but in that case what's the point?

This won't work completely. Large language models usually fail thoroughly when writing Rust code as there's not as much training data.

"critical software" here refers to weapons systems, spying systems, government surveillance systems, cyberwarfare software, etc.

Do you work on critical software

Nah, that kind of reasoning is like "nazis think people should get armed, so we shouldn't."

It's not really a strong point. C++ has its place for graphics programming and gamedev and C has its place for embedded, but Rust would be a better choice for something like a cryptography app to help revolutionaries communicate for example.

their reasoning is that rust (and perhaps others) that can be used in place of c or c++ have stronger compile time memory and thread safety checking which are two major sources of bugs and exploit vectors. So it's not like they're infiltrating the language in this case the way they would with crypto.

Right but AI translating of all government code is good. This is what you want, especially if shit goes down. Dont tell your enemy to stop pouring the kool aid.