[ddulaney]

Unfortunately, it's also C++ code. Most of the weakest parts of C++ come from its close association with C.

When asking why some people like Rust over C++, I think not enough weight is given here: Rust got to not worry about decades of legacy C stuff seeping in. If Rust isn't your jam -- and I get why it wouldn't be -- there are some initiatives starting now from within the C++ community to shed the C legacy with a new language that feels a lot more like modern C++. Herb Sutter's cppfront[0] and Carbon[1] are examples.

But I don't think it makes sense to dismiss this criticism just because the author happens to like Rust. These C idioms continue to be valid and reasonably widely used in C++.

[0]: https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront [1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang