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My point is that I am acknowledging that C and C++ needs more discipline. I'm not saying we eliminated this class of bugs!

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It sounds like you're working on a mature C++ codebase, so yeah, good reason to stick with that. But I'm curious whether you feel it's worth spending effort on this discipline, outside of working on a particular codebase?

I don't know C++, but being freed from making effort to avoid a class of bugs was easily enough for me to learn Rust instead (not that this was the only reason).

I think if I had the opportunity to learn Rust, and some guidance so that I didn't have to do everything the hard way (essentially how I learned C and then C++), then I would!

So far I have used Rust very little, but what I have seen I have liked. I especially liked the much simpler inline assembly in Rust.

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