It's not a very good safety net when it's completely optional. Sure, it's technically optional in Rust too, but in Rust, you have to wrap raw pointer dereferen

It's not a very good safety net when it's completely optional. Sure, it's technically optional in Rust too, but in Rust, you have to wrap raw pointer dereferences and stuff into unsafe{} blocks. The default is safety. In C++, your whole program is an unsafe block.