Ada and Rust aren’t really comparable, and more importantly Ada and C++ aren’t really comparable. The key feature of Rust isn’t that it’s safe — many programmin

Ada and Rust aren’t really comparable, and more importantly Ada and C++ aren’t really comparable. The key feature of Rust isn’t that it’s safe — many programming languages are, after all. The key feature of Rust is that it manages to have an explicit safe subset while maintaining C++’s goals of sophisticated zero-cost abstraction.