"people use Rust as a wrapper over C++ bindings to add in safety to the C++ underneath." Adding a thin wrapper over an insecure library won't magically make it

"people use Rust as a wrapper over C++ bindings to add in safety to the C++ underneath." Adding a thin wrapper over an insecure library won't magically make it secure. That's why pure Rust or pure Swift versions of various algorithms and functionalities are worth so much - guaranteed memory-usage correctness.