[soulbadguy]

> You seem to be presupposing that all, or much of the C/C++ written today will follow best practices and be written by "expert" programmers

No, the argument i am trying to make is that if someone wants safe and reliable code, it's possible to buy that in C/C++ at cheaper price than to migrate to whole new language and platform.

> I'd be willing to wager a far larger portion of the Rust written today will follow best practices

Yes, as you mentioned that's by design. But i don't that the metric we should be looking at : in the group of people/team/compagny who actually care about safety and performance ( and let's be honest that group is the biggest one), what proportion will be using C++ vs rust.