This is why Rust is the leading alternative to C/C++; it was designed from the start to both call and be called from other languages to enable progressive migra

This is why Rust is the leading alternative to C/C++; it was designed from the start to both call and be called from other languages to enable progressive migration, rather than requiring an incompatible and impractical big bang change that would never happen. The mitigations in the cited article are good too, but they don't replace the need for safer languages.