The funny thing about government funding is that it may be easier to secure capital for a Rust rewrite than for ongoing maintenance to add static lifetimes and

The funny thing about government funding is that it may be easier to secure capital for a Rust rewrite than for ongoing maintenance to add static lifetimes and other safety features to an existing C++ codebase. Legislatures seem a lot more able to allocate large pots of money for major discrete projects than to guarantee an ongoing stream of revenue to a continuing project.