> which are much better than C++/Rust's approach of being unsafe-by-default. Nitpick: Rust is safer than Java by default. You can't ever dereference a null poi

> which are much better than C++/Rust's approach of being unsafe-by-default. Nitpick: Rust is safer than Java by default. You can't ever dereference a null pointer (only raw pointers can be null, not references) or make a cast without dipping into unsafe code.