Ya it rather baffling, it would be a solid improvement, and they can easily ban the parts that don't work for them(exceptions/stl/self indulgent template wanker

Ya it rather baffling, it would be a solid improvement, and they can easily ban the parts that don't work for them(exceptions/stl/self indulgent template wankery). On a memory safety scale I'd put C++ about 80% of the way from C to Rust.