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The issue with investing similar levels of effort into making C++ safer is the C++ standards committee doesn't want to adopt those kinds of improvements.


I am not interested in C++, it is also far too complex. In my opinion software needs to become simpler and not more complicated, and I fear Rust might be a step into the wrong direction.


Which is also the reason why we don't have #pragma once and many other extensions like it. Except we do. Compilers can add rust-like static analyzers without the standard committee mandating it.


In principle, the full lifetime system of Rust can be added to C++ without committee approval, but in reality the chances seem low.




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