> The reason I’m not super excited is based on the widely publicized findings from Google and Microsoft (IIRC) about memory safety issues in their code: The vast majority is in new code

This makes perfect sense to me.

Which is why I don't at all understand the current fetish with rewriting things that have been working well for decades in Rust. Such as coreutils. Or apt.

It feels like an almost deliberate crippling of progress by diverting top talent into useless avenues, much like string theory in physics, or SLS/Artemis.