Which option? To write wrappers now instead of later?

I just see no way to be able to use current C++ code in a profiles world without wrappers or even a rewrite. For some code with decent semantics, a modern enough code base and clean APIs that wrapper might be just slapping a "compatible with profile FooBar" somewhere. On the other hand those are the APIs that are the easiest to wrap for other languages, too.

> As an example, while Microsoft slowly adopts Rust, it keeps putting out best practices and improved tooling, they aren't going to rewrite the whole Windows, XBox and Azure C++ code into Rust for the next couple of decades, or how long they would still matter on the market place.

So they are making the jump away from C++ now, wrapping their existing code to reuse it from safer languages. Smart :-)

Use Rust, not an option in many industrial use cases.

There is more out there than C++ and Rust, but yes, if you are stuck with C++, then you have no option but to wait for a couple of years and start to rewrite wehn C++ is ready.

I seriously hope all your competition is in a similar situation or it might become harder and harder for you to meet requirements going forward. The push towards memory-safe languages is out there.