That's reasonable; one's threshold of "safe enough" factors in. If one is just designing a game, or a command line tool for internal use, one needn't make it c

That's reasonable; one's threshold of "safe enough" factors in. If one is just designing a game, or a command line tool for internal use, one needn't make it completely rock solid, and C++ has the better learning curve. If one includes the requirement to make it safer, Rust has the better learning curve. And then if someone actually values memory safety, they use a GC'd language and laugh at how many engineer-months and proofs it will take us to make code as safe as theirs. Sigh, such is life...