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> among all the other points, should be enough to disqualify it for mainstream use. The core of most arguments against C++ boil down to those two points too.

Nope not at all, that’s not a valid comparison.

I argue that there is no simple solution that affords what rust does. Engineers have to use their heads to write correct and fast software. I’m so tired of people just accepting lack of memory safety because it’s “hard” to do correctly. There are real consequences to the amount of insecure trash that exists because of this mindset.



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