I think this comes from people trying to use rust to replace fast gc languages (e.g. C#/java). rust is much lower cognitive overhead than writing correct C/C++,

I think this comes from people trying to use rust to replace fast gc languages (e.g. C#/java). rust is much lower cognitive overhead than writing correct C/C++, but it's a lot harder than writing code where memory is automagically dealt with for you.