There’s a similar distinction between most C++ development and dropping to low-level placement new, mallocs/frees, handwritten assembly or heavy use of intrinsics. You rarely need the latter, and, once wrapped, when used by the former is quite safe. The difference is that Rust was designed with this in mind.

I like Rust; I’ve done some coding challenges in it. It won’t replace C++ for me for quite some time, but it’s about time there was a safe, powerful language that’s truly a worthy contender.