Yeah, that's my point. Even though, unlike C++, (safe) Rust was designed to be (memory) safe from the start, it's notable that Rust and C++ end up (or will soon end up) in the same place - a "usable" safe language and an unsafe superset of that language. It's notable because before C++11, memory safe subsets of C++ could be considered not really "usable". But since the advent of C++11, there are memory safe subsets of C++ that are comparable to Rust in usability and performance [1].

[1] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#safercplusp...