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Chromium is 17-20 (excluding some features they think are footguns) and even has its own MiraclePtr.

There's no True Scotsman C++. All C++ codebases would be perfectly safe, except the ones that people actually wrote.

Note that Rust has been created after C++ already had smart pointers. Rust treated "modern" C++ as safety failure to be replaced, not as an unrealized competitor. This is still a problem with the C++ WG today: their most ambitious safety ceiling is aiming below Rust's floor.