> it's always possible to construct a contrived case where Rust could potentially prevent a bug I could conceivably make, but the point is that everything I've

> it's always possible to construct a contrived case where Rust could potentially prevent a bug I could conceivably make, but the point is that everything I've seen leads me to conclude that any such benefit would be vastly outweighed by the time unnecessarily spent on working around non-issues Yeah, I think at this point we're just agreeing very loudly :) Rust absolutely has some objective advantages over C++, as does C++ over Rust. The choice of which set of (dis)advantages works best is very much something that can only be determined on a case-by-case basis.