> You need a good grasp of who owns what in a program so you can free and close things when they aren't needed (and not before). Less so in C++ these days of c

> You need a good grasp of who owns what in a program so you can free and close things when they aren't needed (and not before). Less so in C++ these days of course, but definitely in C You absolutely need to know in C++ too. Modern C++ just gives you tools to express ownership in code. Rust goes way further and gives you compile time correctness of your lifetime handling