I watched the 20 minute presentation. Very thin on details. The gist was that enum cases are not flagged in ensure one has all cases covered. I have not used C++ in 20 years (probably lots of changes). I coded up an example with a switch statement and got a warning from clang/llvm C++ version 13.0.0 that not all cases in my switch were handled. So, I am not seeing any specific on how rust is better. The only useful information that I got is that the rust develop feel more productive according to google surveys. The real way to compare would be to have a C++ team and a rust team of equal capability and have 50% of traffic go to C++ and 50% of traffic go to rust code. Both teams would start with no code. Then lets compare bugs and maintenance cost. That being said I suspect that C++ have many more dangers; however, is there not a subset of C++ that one can stay within to keep the code "save"? I did not have the time to go through the thread where Stoustrup seems to think so: https://developers.slashdot.or... If C++ can have a flag for a "safe" or "safer" mode, I think that could be a major breakthrough.

I went to the site via tor and got: Error: Forbidden Your client does not have permission to get URL / from this server. Certainly doeds not seem to be promoting anonymous access...

Looks like this is tor browser modified for VPN. The article refered to: https://mullvad.net/en/browser The download button refers to: https://mullvad.net/en/downloa... This refers to source at: https://github.com/mullvad/mul... There is no source checked in the main branch. However, the page confirms firefox ESR as the version "Mullvad Browser 12.0.4 / mullvad-browser-102.9.0esr-12.0-2". However, it refers to a firefox mullvad browser extension: https://mullvad.net/en/downloa... The source link on that page refers back to https://github.com/mullvad/mul...; so perhaps no source is available for that. I appreciate if mullvad is helping to do the work or helping with funding to do the work. FYI: I am downloading the repo, it is very slow going. Note that firefox uses mercurial.

I have an old NT 4.0 that is still running. It was originally commissioned in 1998 and still runs on a regular basis and performs its duty. (Not connected the net net for obvious reasons.)