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Yeah but how is a C++ based project supposed to hit the HN frontpage?

By having a use-after-free bug that caused a noticeable and catastrophic incident.

Like that Cloudflare outage from the other day? In any case, I'm sure there's good reason to believe that, as Rust gains popularity, there totally won't be proportionally more high profile issues in stuff made with it.

You could write a lot of bugs in Rust. Or in any memory-safe language. Just not some bugs. It's just that starting a non-toy project using a non-safe language today is really in the "you could, but didn't stop think if you should" category.

Fair enough, and I do appreciate Rust's contributions to the spectrum of programming language considerations. Personally I'd like to become a Zig guy, though.

There's also Fil-C BTW, and in normal C++ there are GCC or Clang (I forget which) extensions for detecting threading issues, even good old Valgrind is under-appreciated and under-used. In general one wants to adopt best practices and be proactive, rather than relying on the language to solve all problems (of course).

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