Rust

That's what, 2 senior engineers for one year in the Bay or NYC?

Maybe 3 or 4 in a low CoL city?

Or maybe it's more like an army of grad students?

Not too bad.

Edit: doh, it says in the article

Recommendations will likely include the hiring of one or more Interop Initiative engineers

Nice. This is just what I've been looking to do recently. The current libraries just don't cut it

Rare W by google

I wonder what the planned scope is. C++ is such a fundamentally uncooperative language.

They should rather fund rewrites than interop. Who want's to have C++ filth in their rust projects? If you need to deal with C++, just use carbon (or better: quit your job and become a landscaper, so you never have to look at C++ code ever again).