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by coldtea 3453 days ago
>But it doesn't get around the programmer still needing to have a firm understanding of RAII and the difference between the stack and heap in order to be effective in either Rust or C++, or Golang, or C99, or what have you

Who said it does? And why would it have to?

It'a just about catching those "certain class of errors that the Rust compiler will check that will still give you a segfault in C++".

Plus a nicer looking language, with a more modern design.