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The point was how would you justify choosing Rust based on any real world proof. Maybe it will be ready in a few years, but even then it is far from achieving what you already have in SPARK along with proven legacy. I am very familiar with this, and I still chose SPARK/Ada instead of Rust. SPARK is already certified for all of this. And aerospace, railway, and other high-integrity app industries are already familiar with the output of the SPARK tools, so there's less friction and time in auditing them for certification. Aside from AdaCore, who collaborated with Ferrocene, to get a compiler certified I don't see much traction to change our decision. We are creating show control software for cyber-physical systems with potential dire consequences, so we did a very in-depth study Q1 2025, and Rust came up short.


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