It's hard to stereotype the "C/C++ community." The C++ community popularized RAII for safer management of mutex locks, reference counts, and other resources; s

It's hard to stereotype the "C/C++ community." The C++ community popularized RAII for safer management of mutex locks, reference counts, and other resources; smart pointers for null checking; and other ergonomic improvements motivated by the knowledge that getting those things right in plain C required an unrealistic and/or wasteful level of vigilance. When I encountered Rust I immediately recognized the same desire for safety and protection that motivated usage of RAII in C++. And, funnily enough, back in my C++ days I remember dabbling in Common Lisp and loving that there were macros that achieved similar results.