> Yes, Rust's BC is a great technology, but C++ is not a runaway nuclear fire which contaminates and melts everything around it when it comes to sanity and security.
I never meant to imply such a thing. However, Rust is simply a much better-defined language. Moves do what you expect, smart pointers work like you'd expect, there are not 3 (or 5) different types of constructors you have to understand and implement properly if you want to build your own abstractions. You don't have to remember where to put std::move, you don't have to remember what happens to the variable after you move out of it, you don't have to use the awful variant accessor functions if you want a tagged union and so on.
Yes, you can do all this in C++. You can build safe abstractions. You can build layers on top of the STL to make it less awful. You can make use of modules and #embed and other nice new features that C++ is getting. But you need to be a lot more careful compared to Rust, because the compiler is not going to help you.
I never meant to imply such a thing. However, Rust is simply a much better-defined language. Moves do what you expect, smart pointers work like you'd expect, there are not 3 (or 5) different types of constructors you have to understand and implement properly if you want to build your own abstractions. You don't have to remember where to put std::move, you don't have to remember what happens to the variable after you move out of it, you don't have to use the awful variant accessor functions if you want a tagged union and so on.
Yes, you can do all this in C++. You can build safe abstractions. You can build layers on top of the STL to make it less awful. You can make use of modules and #embed and other nice new features that C++ is getting. But you need to be a lot more careful compared to Rust, because the compiler is not going to help you.