Fastest to develop, yes. Portable, yes. Safest? Well, only in as much most of the errors will be blamed on the programmer for not doing the correct modern C++.

Fastest to develop, yes. Portable, yes. Safest? Well, only in as much most of the errors will be blamed on the programmer for not doing the correct modern C++. I mean, seriously, understanding the borrow checker is nowhere near as hard as understanding this: https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/too-perfect-forwarding/ https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/too-perfect-forwar... There's a No True Scotsman aspect to C++ advocacy. Anything that is obviously dumb either is because the programmer did it wrong, because it belongs to the ever-growing list of features you avoid or "doesn't come up that often".