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Re:C++: Is It Really a Cruel Joke? (2003) by amelius on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:45AM (#17464170)
Could be true, but a modern language such as Rust has its own problems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442743

Re:C++: Is It Really a Cruel Joke? (2003) by bluejekyll on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:59AM (#17464274)
What you’ve just linked to is a solution to the issue mentioned above. Rust makes a lot of guarantees, but sometimes those guarantees run afoul of certain required operations in different contexts. For this reason the language has an escape valve, unsafe, and the unsafe blocks are blindingly obvious in the code.

To say it’s a problem is misleading at best.