Astonished that your comment got down-voted: it is one of the most insightful here and matches my experience with C++ rather well. Mixing smart pointers and mu

Astonished that your comment got down-voted: it is one of the most insightful here and matches my experience with C++ rather well. Mixing smart pointers and multi-threading in C++ may result in some nasty surprises that are very difficult to track down and would be impossible with garbage collection, and I'd be curious if Rust would be able to do better here with its fancy type system.