I agree that safety aspect in C++ has improved in its modern versions. But, these modern features are best practices as documented in C++ core guidelines. The i

I agree that safety aspect in C++ has improved in its modern versions. But, these modern features are best practices as documented in C++ core guidelines. The issue with best practices is that it cannot be enforced. That is, lets say everybody on my team follows the latest guidelines. We even have latest static analysis tools. However, the same cannot be said about the 3rd party libraries that we will use. In this regard, Rust is much better since the every line of code is subjected to the same strict rules. Offcourse, one can argue that the 3rd party Rust libraries can use a lot of "unsafe" code which we as consumer may not know about. But the situation is still better than C++.