[cristicbz]

You can still trigger plenty of undefined behaviour in C++11 with no raw pointers. Just one example--iterator invalidation:

    auto v = std::vector<int> {1, 2, 3}
    for (auto x : v) {
        if (x > 0) {
            v.push_back(-x);
        }
    }

The above may segfault, do what you expect it to, run forever etc. Unchecked indexing, branching on uninitialized data etc.

Rust frees you from _all_ of these things and offers a bunch of further advantages, most notably: data race freedom. You can actually share data between threads and keep your sanity.

[kibwen]

Can someone explain why this was downvoted?