Your dodging of my question leads me to believe that the answer is "no". Therefore, "modern C++" is still unsafe. > Even using unsafe blocks does not, by itsel

Your dodging of my question leads me to believe that the answer is "no". Therefore, "modern C++" is still unsafe. > Even using unsafe blocks does not, by itself, make the program unsafe. This is false. "Unsafe" means that there is the potential to cause memory safety bugs. Unsafe blocks and C++ cause this, by definition. "Unsafe" does not mean that a memory safety bug actually exists. Moreover, I didn't mention anything about Rust in my comment.