In your blind love for Rust you seem to forget that it in fact operates with pointers - everywhere.

The thing is that Rust either tracks the lifetime of a naked pointer (similiar to std::unique_ptr), or you wrap pointers in objects which facilitate reference counting to track the lifetime (similiar to std::shared_ptr).

In the end both kinds operate on generic, unsafe raw pointers - safe only thanks to ownership tracking and "boxing".

The only difference here is that Rust thankfully made it opt-out while C++ unfortunately needs to use opt-in.

But yeah... I'm eager to hear your explaination how Rust doesn't use those stupid pointers. Maybe you can create a new computer architecture too? I mean since x86 uses pointers and stuff. Maybe we should use garbage collected languages for that, huh?