I pity companies that will follow this hype train and rewrite perfectly working software to achieve nothing in the end, from a pragmatic point of view. You can

I pity companies that will follow this hype train and rewrite perfectly working software to achieve nothing in the end, from a pragmatic point of view. You can do an essay for every other vector of software development and claim how a rewrite will do you wonders: Eg: FP, strong type system, Linux... The problem is, in real life, we have a bunch of a problems to solve from many vectors, not just (the little square) of memory safety related bugs. And people from the real world tend to measure those vectors together for their particular problems and often their answers, even if they go for C++, are a better suit to solve their issues than a objective-imperative from a person who looks only from one perspective, and think that is 'the most important thing®' that should be pursuit, risking avoidable financial bankrupts (by threatening financial bankrupt). Think for a minute if the native access of a giving library, say, LLVM or Tensorflow is much more important for the project and/or the company survival.. Its like Bush's "War on terror" making people feel fear about some boogeyman but actually inflicting the real terror they said you should trust them to avoid. Specialized, cartesian division of technology tend to turn us all into neurotics, and the problem with neurotics is that they don't see the bigger picture which is much more complex and systemic as things in real world tend to be. Contrary to the extremists views, modern C++ is a fine option and people should not go for this FUD tactics, making they fear to opt for a perfectly nice platform to develop things, and that has proved itself over and over through time doing amazing things. Rust might be a fine option too, but this whole urge to rewrite C++ software is pure non-sense. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...