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>Meanwhile, decades of industry experience have shown that the governing principles of even modern C++ make it incredibly hard (expensive) to deliver high quality software.

Unreal Engine is C++ based and plenty of games have used it.

Fundamentally, when it comes to safety, its either everything or nothing. Rust is by definition unsafe, because it has "unsafe" keyword. If the programmer has enough discipline not use use unsafe everywhere, he/she has enough discipline to write normal C++ code.

But as far as C++ goes, the main problem is that the syntax still allows C style pointers and de referencing for compatibility with C code. Generally, if you stick to using std library constructs and smart pointers for everything, the code becomes very clean. Unique ptr is basically the thing that inspired Rust ownership semantics after all.