[rootedbox]

Most of the safety nets in rust were in pascal(some may say done better in pascal). The fastest most efficient compilers in the early 2000s were pascal compilers (RIP Borland). but here we are.. no pascal and c++ everywhere.

[pjmlp]

And just to confirm C++ isn't going away in our lifetimes, C++ Builder and Delphi had new releases last month.