One proposal is to port software that heavily depends on C or C++ to Rust, on the expectation that it will be faster and more secure, at an estimated cost of about $6 million.

“... huge, huge, huge surface area thing. There's one argument from Malta of Vercel who's like, "Okay, guys, let's take every single, like, high depend, highly dependent on software, uh, that's written in C, C++ port it to Rust," and it's like, "We'll be faster, more secure."”

“Uh, and, like, it, it won't... It'll probably take, like, $6 million, and but you'll j- you'll, you'll get it done. And, and then there's, there's another argument for... This, this also links to Pacing the Frontier from the, the open source, uh, from the Model Labs-”