Comment by tobias12345

Does it matter whether it is a common class of bugs or a not so common one? The point is, this is a class of bugs you do not have when picking a different language.

C++ claimed for decades to be about eliminating a class of resource management bugs you can have in C code, that was its biggest selling point. So why is eliminating another class of bugs a nice to have now?

C++ is loosing projects to memory safe languages for decades now, just think of all the business software in Java, scientific SW in python, ... . The industry is moving towards memory safe software for decades now. Rust is just the newest option -- and a very compelling one as it has no runtime environment or garbage collector, just like C++.