I deeply appreciate the mood, but when the NSA started pushing memory safety and TRACTOR launched, I doubled down.

TRACTOR seems like a helluva Hail Mary. The C and C++ abstract machine had so many sharp pointy bits that need to be reified exactly that I find it hard to translate to Rust.

Whoever wins it (not sure if they’ve announced it yet?) will be doing God’s work but it feels like an enormous undertaking. And I sometimes like these DARPA-hard projects.