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by hypeatei 961 days ago
> Both of them are enormous steps up in safety over C.

I would argue one (Rust) is, but not C++. Rust is more "batteries included" and doesn't require specific compiler flags or complicated tooling, it just works and gives you guarantees out of the box. C++ seems to allow escape hatches by default while Rust requires you to call that out via `unsafe`.