> This is the major barrier. It's a difficult language to learn for people who've worked with a compiled, strictly typed language with manual memory management.

> This is the major barrier. It's a difficult language to learn for people who've worked with a compiled, strictly typed language with manual memory management. This was not what Google and others found when they studied it. https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/ https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/ > More significant, Bergstrom said, is the comparison of rewrites of C++ code into Rust. > "In every case we've seen a decrease by more than 2x in the amount of effort required to both build the services in Rust as well as maintain and update those services written in Rust," he said.