[mmstick]

It seems that you have a very misguided view of what Rust offers to the table. The main selling point of Rust is not safety. Safety is just a side effect of lowering the bar to achieving concurrency/parallelism, which has proven time and time again to be a major problem with C/C++. I can tell you right now that, among the top reasons that people choose Rust for, safety isn't even among the top three.

For many, Cargo is the main selling point of Rust. Then there's the ADTs, move semantics and move-semantic-powered features(borrow checker & compile-time-checked state machines), compile-time static code analysis, FP capabilities, traits and trait-based generics, pattern matching, and the miscellaneous tools and communities surrounding Cargo / Rust. None of which you can obtain with C++. Not to mention how much better the syntax of Rust is compared to C++ -- being able to succinctly express complex patterns in simple, human-readable terms with no room for context-based ambiguity.