- Migrating C/C++ projects to Rust is practical for improving safety and reducing maintenance, but requires a strategic approach.
- Successful migrations are incremental, starting with isolated modules integrated into existing build and release processes.
- Strong candidates for migration include performance-sensitive, concurrent, or security-critical codebases where maintainability is costly.
- Full rewrites are viable only for small codebases with exhaustive tests and stable APIs; otherwise, incremental migration is safer.