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Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Whilst it's gotten a lot better in the -17 and -20 iterations, the fact that there was recently a doorstop book published solely on the subject of C++ initialisation semantics is pretty telling.
I really like what Herb Sutter's doing around cppfront; I still wouldn't use C++ unless I absolutely had to.