DEV Community

Discussion on: What Does C++ Do That Rust Doesn't?

Collapse
 
codemouse92 profile image
Jason C. McDonald • Edited
  • Full control = you can hurt yourself more easily
  • Features = more ways to hurt yourself
  • Safety = limits on what you can do

Features with safety built in are a bit like railings around the Grand Canyon rim. They keep you safe, but you can't rappel down to study the cliff face. For that, you'd have to climb over the railing...at which point, if you don't do it right, the safety feature kinda adds to the ways you can hurt yourself.

Or you just can't get over the railing, and there goes the geologic survey.

It's always a tradeoff, innit? XD