[tdbgamer]

C++ does have a lot of the features that Rust has. You won't get any of the memory safety guarantees or compile time checks though. I will say that to me a lot of the C++ equivalents to Rust features seem very awkward to use (maybe not once you're used to C++ I guess).

This guy does a pretty good presentation on Polymorphism in Rust vs C++: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSlBhAOLtFA

[pjmlp]

The major issue with C++, is what also helped the language gain market adoption, copy-paste compatibility with most of C89 code.

So security conscious C++ developers tend to use enum class, string, vector and array classes, RAII, iostreams, wrapping data access in classes with invariants,...

Developers with more C oriented mindset, tend to just code away like "C with C++ compiler" programming style.

Hence the need being discussing since the last three CppCon, to stop using C style programming in modern C++.

CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk

CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OEu9C51K2A

CppCon 2017: Bjarne Stroustrup “Learning and Teaching Modern C++” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX2W3nNjJIo&t=2s

Of course, preventing copy-paste compatibility with C, already solves many of those issues from the get go.

[jacquesm]

> Developers with more C oriented mindset, tend to just code away like "C with C++ compiler" programming style.

The way I've seen it described is 'C with more convenient comments'.

[makapuf]

You mean C99 ? What I really miss from C , with some of the things of this article, is constexpr, compile time checked enums, ...