The safety aspects do get very hyped. It's better to consider the language strict about correctness; memory safety falls out of that, but so does other stuff, like less logic bugs.
Thing is, this is from someone that likes Rust, but for various reasons has to reach out to C++ when going outside my daily use of managed languages, while C++ will never be as safer as Rust, there are many tools to get us half way there.
The big problem is that many projects keep ignoring those tools, the way Zig sorts out reporting use after free errors, the same solution exists for C and C++ for about 30 years now.
The big problem is that many projects keep ignoring those tools, the way Zig sorts out reporting use after free errors, the same solution exists for C and C++ for about 30 years now.