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1M only? Google pays 500M (half a billion Dollar) to their rival Mozilla Firefox. Each year. I don't want to make this a Mozilla thread, just want to say they could have done more than just a million Dollar for Rust. Given that Google uses Rust as well.
I bet this won't have an impact on memory safety and interop means C++ compilers have to be stricter about memory layout and reduce unspecified edge cases.