For that small price you get security against everything except memory leaks (which you don't get anyways in this bare C++ either) not to mention other Rust niceties while keeping superficially same convenient semantics.
I'm not talking about GP right now. "Thanks, I hate it." actually made me smirk a little bit and his links to assembly were actually super informative. So in this case humor was great but there was also substance which I felt I need to respond to with "what's in it for me".