Yes, of course. If you use C++, try to not shoot your foot off. The same advice also applies to Rust or any other programming language. You should still try to

Yes, of course. If you use C++, try to not shoot your foot off. The same advice also applies to Rust or any other programming language. You should still try to follow best practices and not mess up, even if a language makes it less likely to mess up in certain ways. The question is how often you mess up in each language and how bad those mess-ups are. This depends a lot on the programmer(s) and the kind of project. My personal view is that the space of team/project combinations where you should ever start a new C++ project is now confined to "team desperately wants C++".