While I addressed safety in a separate section in the article, I wouldn't argue about that: it seems Rust designers made the perfect work in safety. However, C++ is moving in this directly, bu there is the "gap" as it was described in the cited talk from the CppCon 2020.

However, there article is about FAST programming languages. Which means, and I stated this explicitly at the beginning of the article, that the main factor for the article is the speed of the generated code.

This is why I compared the single Rust implementation with 3 C/C++ implementations. The question was: whether Rust does something unreachable for C/C++? And the answer is "NOT". Also please keep in mind that all the benchmark programs, using the same algorithms, are still coded in bit different ways. And the differences impact performance significantly. I analyzed two programs, in Rust and C, to show the differences.