I didn't share an opinion on rust or cpp, just a comment on the difference that I experience between people I have conversations with and the opinion of vocal internet people.

Only like 1% of people actually write on the internet. The everyone's doing it argument seems to me, more like a vocal minority.

> Only like 1% of people actually write on the internet. The everyone's doing it argument seems to me, more like a vocal minority.

Both the US Federal Government and the EU are apparently in the "vocal minority" who think programmers should stop using C++ because it's unsafe. Both have created documents which more or less just outright say that over the past year or so.

As a result, two other very significant things have happened which might reasonably cause people to decide that for C++ this is perhaps the beginning of the end rather than just an interesting bump in the road.

1. Several people or groups announced "successor languages" in 2022. Unlike Rust, these aren't merely languages which are sometimes cited as potential safer alternatives to C++ or as languages you might choose instead, yet have an existence all their own - The successor languages are specifically targeting C++ and C++ programmers. In this number we can count Carbon, Val, Circle and Cpp2 / CppFront.

2. Several WG21 ("The C++ Standards Committee") members wrote papers for WG21 either claiming that there's no problem (this is not, in fact, a thing you do when there's no problem, nobody writes US policy papers saying the US is not at risk of attack by Belgium) or offering vague plans for plans to do something about the problem. These are hastily written (Bjarne Stroustrup wrote or co-wrote four of them in as many months, all with numerous typographical errors) and do not in my view make a case that C++ is or will be fine although that's how they're intended.