Your point being exactly what? Don't put words in my mouth because I never claimed C and C++ are as safe as Rust, just that they are good enough for millions, i

Your point being exactly what? Don't put words in my mouth because I never claimed C and C++ are as safe as Rust, just that they are good enough for millions, including you, to rely on daily with their lives and that Rust itself relies on some C++ (LLVM). I'd even say that yes, C is the least friendly and most spartan language and C++ is the most complex and hard language that are in wide use nowdays but that wasn't the OP's claim. The OP's claim was ridiculous and on the level of opinion people have of Java applets ("totally unsafe", "useless", etc.). These people who have such opinions of them don't run them in their browsers so you should not run any C or C++ on your machine either or you are clearly overdramatizing. Mathematical provability and technical excellence has sadly little to do with adoption - see where JavaScript, Erlang, Haskell, OCalm, Modula, etc. ended up and tell me every language got what it deserved based on its own merit. Fanboying over Rust and RedoxOS (it being impressive or not is besides the point) won't fix all that "doable if stars align C" and "humanly impossible C++ that has UB even after few lines" code out there in the government, power plants (including nuclear), infrastructure, stores, embedded, banks, ... Egos have nothing to do with it. I dislike JavaScript, Java and C# personally (not for any technical reasons but due to my tastes) but if I've seen someone saying the are useless and everything written in them is broken I'd call BS. I'm similarly fond of Free Pascal with LCL for personal GUI toys but if someone said it'll take over the world and destroy Qt and GTK+ behemoths I'd also call BS. Hell, I'd defend your precious little Rust if someone said something stupid about it. There's factual critique (which I have lots of myself and I don't recommend C or C++ to new hobbyist programmers but Python3), there's personal taste (that you mustn't camouflage as technical opinions) and then there's pedal to the metal "I hate the language so it's totally useless and no human can use it" BS like the OP's comment. Rust supposedly targets C and C++ programmers so it shouldn't be acceptable to shit all over their tools and by extension their work, telling them they are stupid for liking these languages and are doing everything wrong as an engineer. The fact that such BS is disallowed in official Rust spaces is really telling of how idiotic and ridiculous it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755394