There literally isn't a plan or direction in place to add any way to compete with Rust in the safety space currently. They've got maybe until c++29 to standardise lifetimes, and then C++ will transition to a legacy language
The C++ WG keeps looking down at C and the old C++ sins, sees their unsafety, and still thinks that's the problem to fix.
Rust looks the same way at modern C++. The std collections and smart pointers already existed before the Rust project has been started. Modern C++ is the safety failure that motivated creation of Rust.
when people say this do they have like any perspective? there are probably more cpp projects started in one week (in big tech) than rust projects in a whole year. case in point: at my FAANG we have probably like O(10) rust projects and hundreds of cpp projects.
as they say "citation needed"