One of the ways that I think Kotlin and Rust are objectively better than Java and C++ is in that they have saner defaults than their predecessors (like open/fin

One of the ways that I think Kotlin and Rust are objectively better than Java and C++ is in that they have saner defaults than their predecessors (like open/final and mut/const). I've lost count of how many talks I've watched by Kate Gregory where she advocates for people tagging everything they can as const in their C++, but asking people to eat their veggies never works.