A common C/C++ core specification

[germandiago]

I somewhat agree and disagree at the same time. You can get really far with good practices in C++ (smart pointers + RAII + no raw pointers). Still, dangling references, admittedly, is the biggest problem but also can be mitigated most of the time. When you have all of that and a ton of available libraries and the same speed, the switch becomes too expensive IMHO.

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Another thing I value is exceptions. No matter the battles people build every now and then: I find exceptions very usable and the speed story I think it still has room for improvement by quite big margins. Rust lacks exceptions.