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Sibling comment (last paragraph about python binding) is spot on: modest c++ knowledge puts doing a native component in a otherwise memory safe environment deeply into "don't try this at home!" territory. Modest rust knowledge? Sure, you might find yourself having picked a fight that you are unable to win, giving up before finding a solution the borrow checker accepts. But the danger of ending up with a quick success that later turns out to be an infinite supply of mystery segfaults is rather low. The failure mode for being not quite sufficiently good at it for the problem at hand is far more benign in rust.

Modest c++ knowledge means knowing that you should better not try using that knowledge, which is quite terrible as an on-ramp.