“I’d actually, even prior to that tweet, told our teams we should stop new projects in C and C++ and start with Rust if we can’t tolerate a garbage-collected language,” he said during his RustConf keynote.

Now, as deputy CISO of Azure (in addition to CTO), he can make it official: “There’s just too much risk in adopting or creating new C++, you will not do it.”

>“There’s just too much risk in adopting or creating new C++, you will not do it.”