Well, he's the CTO at Azure and apparently he's telling his people to avoid using C/C++ for new projects. They no longer have that freedom there because he just

Well, he's the CTO at Azure and apparently he's telling his people to avoid using C/C++ for new projects. They no longer have that freedom there because he just told them so. What people do in their spare time is of course their own business. I believe other big companies have similar reservations about using C/C++ on new projects. And given the cost of cleaning up the security mess that using C/C++ has caused these companies, I can see where they are coming from. It's not about demonizing people but just a simple, rational business decision to not use C/C++ for new things anymore. We have Rust now and it's capable of delivering the same level of performance as C/C++ but without all the memory leaks, buffer overflows and other costly headaches that a CTO of Azure needs to worry about messing up his business. Not worth it anymore. People taking things like this personally is unfortunate but more a problem these people have than anything else. I get it, it's not fun having your favorite language - and by extension you - labelled obsolete. Not a nice message to receive.