I cannot consistently write safe C/C++ code
The worst thing about these kinds of articles is the troves of junior programmers that never touched systems programming with a stick before but will read this on hackernews today and sit in the office tomorrow lecturing seasoned coders how they´re dumb for not having seen the light and using an unsafe language.<p>This is how stupid cargo cult gets made, guys. It&#x27;s easy to repeat some talking points that you found on the rust homepage or another internet forum, but doing that does not make you an enlightened programmer!<p>Do c&#x2F;c++ for 10 years, like the author, and then you&#x27;re qualified to comment about the topic. If you&#x27;re new to this, try to put your time into actually learning about these topics and not just blindly repeating other peoples opinions. Please don&#x27;t say things like &quot;c&#x2F;c++ is unsafe and should not be used&quot; without understanding it first. And try to consider for a moment that a humongous part of the critical software in the world is written in it. It is the industry standard for all things embedded and low level. Consider that maybe the reason for that is not that everybody outside of hacker news is stupid.<p>The thing is, I&#x27;m not even saying the author is wrong (I don&#x27;t think he is). I&#x27;m just saying that circulating these kinds of opinion posts here and then applauding each other for being such brilliant rust fanboys is not helpful.