I agree. It is honestly a fine language IMO and while I have nothing against Rust, I also haven’t had much of an interest or incentive to use it. Yes, buffer overflow is a thing - it’s never been an issue in my experience. Use after free and memory leaks are infrequent, easy to fix, and caught early.

Golang is not a real replacement because 1. Golang core devs are too opinionated on random shit and make some things very hard to do without reinventing the wheel because “you shouldn’t do that” partially because it’s a corporate-owned language 2. GC. There are other minor things but those are the big ones, it’s still an excellent backend language but can’t replace C++.

Besides Rust everything else is a toy without stability and backwards compatibility and/or lack of libraries. Rust is fine, it’s just that the problems it tries to solve aren’t something that experienced C++ devs often struggle with.