>his son is learning Rust and that it is better I'm hoping this was sarcasm. This recommendation was in the form of a report by the Office of the National Cyb

>his son is learning Rust and that it is better I'm hoping this was sarcasm. This recommendation was in the form of a report by the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) in the White House. I would suspect it had more thought to it than you're suggesting. I think this quote from the article is quite useful: "Recent studies from Microsoft and Google have found that about 70 percent of all security vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety issues." Which the article cites [1] [2] There is validity to their argument on the source of security vulnerabilities. [1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safety/ https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet... [2] https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2019/07/a-proactive-approach-to-more-secure-code/ https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2019/07/a-proactive-approach...