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Except when something goes wrong, you can typically focus all your attention on the unsafe blocks, which should be a very small portion of your codebase, if it exists at all. (Contrary to popular belief, unsafe Rust code is neither mandatory nor widespread.)

By contrast and comparing apples to apples, your entire C or C++ codebase is the equivalent of one giant unsafe block. You can bring in 3rd party tools to perform some of the static analysis the Rust compiler does for you, but call it for what it is.

By default, Rust is safe while C & C++ are not.