Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "C++ Is Getting A Borrow Checker" video.

  1. From everything I've seen an read about safe C++ proposal, I cannot think it as anything else but Rust with weird syntax. And to convert any existing code from C++ to safe C++, you have to rewrite approximately 95% of all the code. However, if this basically gets full compatibility between C++ and safe C++ (read "Rust with C++ syntax"), I guess it still makes sense. The Rust interoperability is strictly C only.
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  2. I think ability to write thread safe code without race conditions is the most important feature of Rust and now safe C++ claims to have the same feature. Managed languages such as Java et al cannot guarantee race free multi-threaded coded and always depend on mistake-free developer (yeah, good luck with that).
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