> Any program I have not written yet would be a new project. Any old project is one where the program has already been written. That is simply not any definiti

> Any program I have not written yet would be a new project. Any old project is one where the program has already been written. That is simply not any definition I've ever heard for a new project. You are assuming a binary of written or not written, and yet there are codebases that are incompletely written. That is what the parent means about ongoing projects that wouldn't migrate to Rust where you'd still be able to work on them, and who knows, maybe Rust won't overtake C++ and it'll continue, like many C projects have. But that you have made yourself a "C++ developer," and not a developer in general who solves problems with whatever tool is best, does mean that whenever something comes along that threatens your identity, you seem to take it to absurdity, as the parent says.