“Rust, while powerful, has a fairly steep learning curve, for example.”
The NSA wants you off C and C++ and onto C#, Rust, Go, Java, Ruby or Swift. Good advice, and about two decades late. The same agency spent those decades hoarding the memory bugs it now warns about. Even Azure’s CTO admits the existing C and C++ will be maintained for decades. Telling people to rewrite is easy. Paying for it is the hard part.