I have seen--and agree with--the opposite argument: that C++ already has a lot of similar patterns and solves enough of C's safety issues that the remaining lim

I have seen--and agree with--the opposite argument: that C++ already has a lot of similar patterns and solves enough of C's safety issues that the remaining limitations become a tradeoff against the things where Rust is still far behind C++ (such as in value templates, to name just one of a million things), that the move for C developers feels a lot more motivated than for C++ developers (and the Rust people seem to de facto agree, whether they say it explicitly or not... when I have pressed them on things that make Rust really unappealing to me the defense ends up as "we were courting embedded systems developers", which is the only set of people I imagine still really feeling a need to code in C... though I frankly also can't imagine the ones I know of moving to Rust).