Dear finance folks: Please do write your trading systems in Rust; then at least the poor beeper-wearing support folks maintaining the code doesn't have to come in on the weekend as often to debug those unnecessary null pointer & dangling reference errors causing crashes.
Dear language righteous. I am one of those "poor souls" who writes web and other enterprise backends in C++. I can assure you that I do not come on weekends / woken up at night to fix "null pointer & dangling reference errors causing crashes" or memory leaks. Modern C++ along with libs and tooling provides more than enough features to be done away with those on backend style development. I just simply do not remember the last time I had this kind of problems.
Firmware is a bit different but frankly all of the gadgets I own work just fine ;)
Edit. I am not a C++ zealot. Have used and using many languages.
Rust is solving for the wrong problem. Null and dangling pointers aren't the main problem in building financial trading systems (I built a financial trading system).
