Document no. ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 22/WG 23 N1453 4 Dec 2024 Attendees Erhard Tullio Sean Larry Stephen Discussions on use of Rust and Ada in US Federal government programs Analysis of reviewing Rust for programming language vulnerabilities (and Ada) Significant interest within government to move from C or C++ to something safer, such as Rust or Ada. Deficiencies Lack of written specification for rust Lack of multiple implementations for rust Issue that Rust is the "new shiny language" and others will come along and Rust may experience loss of interest.