The surface of exposure is much lower in Rust than in C/C++ however. It is unlikely you are writing your entire program in unsafe Rust, so you can still get a s

The surface of exposure is much lower in Rust than in C/C++ however. It is unlikely you are writing your entire program in unsafe Rust, so you can still get a significant benefit from memory-safe safe Rust. In C/C++ world, _everything_ is unsafe, so you can't even limit your exposure in the safer parts because you can do unsafe operations anywhere.