[steveklabnik]

It hasn’t enough to satisfy industry or regulators.

As long as that C code is valid C++ code, it’s still a problem for C++. Backwards compatibility with C is a strength, but also a weakness. The Go and Java folks invested in rewriting dependencies in their own language to prevent problems, if C++ is truly that much safer than C, the C++ community could do the same, and demonstrate that it’s safer.

This is the power of opt out vs opt in. You can’t forget to run the borrow checker in Rust. That’s a practical, real-world advantage.