On: Modern C++ for C Programmers

[setr]

Coincidentally, the author already has a response for you: https://ds9a.nl/articles/posts/cpp-rust-go/

[pcwalton → setr]

This post makes the mistake of assuming that anybody in industry writes secure C or C++ code.

[29athrowaway → setr]

- Rust doesn't have to keep 30+ years of backwards compatibility. You can learn it.

- C++ has hundreds of dialects to pick from. You'll spend time bikeshedding with coding standards, you'll spend time in meetings trying to get people to agree to a standard, you'll spend time trying to enforce the standard...

- Rust makes reasonable decisions by default, and mutable/unsafe code is opt-in.