Not sure proves your point, but maybe doesn't disprove your point strongly enough. I am not qualified to argue from experience about how Rust is ideally suited

Not sure proves your point, but maybe doesn't disprove your point strongly enough. I am not qualified to argue from experience about how Rust is ideally suited in the ways you think it is not. But from everything I have seen, it can do a whole lot of what C++ is also good at. Rust safety is not all or nothing and a codebase could definitely prioritize ergonomics over correctness. Two things that I saw in the last couple weeks that might start to sway you. https://github.com/sslab-gatech/Rudra#readme https://github.com/sslab-gatech/Rudra#readme GhostCell: Separating Permissions from Data in Rust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIbubw86p0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIbubw86p0M Even unsafe Rust can be as ergonomic as C++. But that unsafety can be mediated, moderated and controlled.