[jvanderbot]

Separating safe C/C++ from everyday C/C++ is not fair, in my opinion, but I get your point: If it can be abused it will be, either by accident, inexperience, or maliciousness.

Once you separate C/C++ into safe and unsafe cateogries, and admit that Rust has unsafe uses that are "just so much harder to use", we're clearly defining a gradient:

    C/C++, safer C/C++ subset or maybe Unsafe Rust, safer Rust, ...

[shikon7]

Sure you can use safe C++ with some effort, but the libraries you use most likely still use unsafe C/C++. For Rust, I expect that the libraries are much safer in general.