The projects they want to make safer includes Linux, curl, sudo, among others.

Just found it and I think this will be interesting for this community.

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    I’m in my 40s, and finally decided to give C/C++ a serious go and try to learn them at a competent level after decades of putting it off, and now everybody wants to move to Rust.

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      Actually this is probably a good time for you to get into Rust, since everyone is still at the starting point (ish), and you, unlike others, don’t have decades of C/C++ habits ingrained in you. So if you’re starting off fresh, Rust is not a bad language to dip your toes into. :)

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        I’m at the level of finally understanding pointers, templates, and operator/function overloads and using them pretty effortlessly now. I looked at some Rust code. I’m not sure I have the brain plasticity to take that on at my age now without massive struggling.

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    A few too many superlatives in their pitches for my taste. Not a bad idea overall, though the bias in favor of Rust is strong. Did it really become the go-to (heh) memory safe programming language for performance ?

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    Sounds good. Hopefully they also find some way to dynamically link libraries, to make the binary size and memory footprint smaller, compared to common rust programs.

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    What is this? Looks like a website filled with info about projects unrelated to it and gathering donations for unknown purpose.