This really describes quite well why Rust is such a joyful language to work in. You might still write garbage, but the compiler constrains the types of garbage

This really describes quite well why Rust is such a joyful language to work in. You might still write garbage, but the compiler constrains the types of garbage you can write to a much smaller subset. Whenever people say that a skillful programmer can write well-working C++, I don't disagree, but in my experience it continues to fail on projects with more people involved. If your project has size N=1, and you're skillful it's not an issue, if you have N=2 or N=3, you might still be able to review everything and find very competent contributors. But for bigger N, at some point you'll have average or below average skilled contributors in the project, you won't be able to review all contributions. A strongly typed language, strict compiler, standard formatter, and standard linter however can scale in this way. Rust offers all of these.