It's an oft-quoted fact that Rust is meant to take stuff that good C/C++ programmers already do and build it into the language. If you weren't convinced of this

It's an oft-quoted fact that Rust is meant to take stuff that good C/C++ programmers already do and build it into the language. If you weren't convinced of this before reading this post, then pay close attention to how important the author considers pointer ownership to be.