Why Rust is winning over C++ for systems programming

Memory safety guarantees via ownership and borrowing prevent 70% of security vulnerabilities found in C/C++. The compiler catches data races at compile time with Send/Sync traits, eliminating an entire class of threading bugs that plague parallel code. Cargo handles dependencies, testing, and linting out of the box — a tooling gap that has kept C++ teams shackled to CMake for decades.

Borrow checker took me forever to learn but it saved countless days of debugging segfaults later.