Even brilliant developers on the Linux kernel teams and Postgres teams make memory mistakes that lead to security problems.
Maybe you are at a higher level than them though.
Maybe you are at a higher level than them though.
I don't know C++, but being freed from making effort to avoid a class of bugs was easily enough for me to learn Rust instead (not that this was the only reason).
So far I have used Rust very little, but what I have seen I have liked. I especially liked the much simpler inline assembly in Rust.