> The number one problem Rust has now is that it’s overall not significantly better than C++ and sometimes the reverse is true. Maybe we are coming at this fro

> The number one problem Rust has now is that it’s overall not significantly better than C++ and sometimes the reverse is true. Maybe we are coming at this from different angles but I disagree. I remember seeing some discussions in the C++ community about challenges with using `std::string_view` that seemed like they were discouraging it and thinking to myself "this isn't a problem in Rust". In fact, I refactored a crate I maintain from cloning objects all over the place to using references. I looked at what i did with my C++ hat on and realized that I'd consider myself irresponsible to do the same in C++ without a *very* high bar to justify it, not just because of the cost of the global analysis to ensure it was safe but the fact that that global analysis would need to be repeated on every subsequent change. Being in Rust, it compiled and I knew I was good. I even had an idea for reducing even more allocations that I thought was safe (20+ years of C++ experience, 10 in life-or-death mission-critical software) and the compiler found a case where I was wrong and the approach doesn't work.