> in fact it is now very hard to make those stupid mistakes these days with modern c++ in a good IDE(even vim with the right configuration). Google has, suppos

> in fact it is now very hard to make those stupid mistakes these days with modern c++ in a good IDE(even vim with the right configuration). Google has, supposedly, some of the best engineers¹ in the world, and the best tooling in the world, and they keep pouring tons of resources on the best engineers and the best tools. Yet, the same memory safety errors (which Rust, or any hypothetical memory-safe language, prevent entirely) keep popping again, and again. Have you heard of CVE-2020-0022? It's amazing. In this perspective, pouring resources and effort on those languages is like trying to open a door by banging the head harder. It's fine if you like it, just don't pretend it's the optimal way to open doors. ¹=edited, to make it clearer what I wanted to convey.