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Ada solved all those problems decades ago, it did not fly.

C++ ran on rockets to the space, Rust has not yet. I don't even know any major projects or products are done with Rust for the last 16 years.

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".

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Ada and Rust aren’t really comparable, and more importantly Ada and C++ aren’t really comparable. The key feature of Rust isn’t that it’s safe — many programming languages are, after all. The key feature of Rust is that it manages to have an explicit safe subset while maintaining C++’s goals of sophisticated zero-cost abstraction.

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