I'm not sure I understand exactly why this is specific to game development? (I see that the article uses a game-like example, but...) Even so: I'm pretty sure

I'm not sure I understand exactly why this is specific to game development? (I see that the article uses a game-like example, but...) Even so: I'm pretty sure Rust is suitable for game development being essentially zero-overhead, non-GC and Rust effectively disallows "null". (That, and C++ if you allow only references like another poster mentioned.)