Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source
I know very little about C, C++, or Rust, so I want to ask this to understand why C++ was picked for this. My limited understanding is that people were tolerating C++ libraries like OpenSSL, but that new crypto or security code would likely be written in Rust for safety.The blog doesn't say much (to me) about the choice:    In addition to having no external dependencies, Microsoft SEAL
    is written in standard C++, making it easy to compile in many
    different environments.

Is Rust unsuitable for this project? If anyone here worked on SEAL, I'd love to learn more about this -- did the SEAL team consider using Rust?