The point is that I've noticed a broad "religious" trend where those promoting Rust don't lend any credit to the places where C/C++ has valid strengths, even if due to it's legacy. It doesn't do a great service to either community to constantly pit the two against each other, and to misrepresent the other in a way that's not honest. C++ doesn't exist and continue to evolve just because it's been around forever, there are a number of things leading to it's continued use that should be brought into the discussions.

C++ isn't going anywhere. In 20 years you may not be writing in it, but you'll still be calling into it somewhere in the software stack (especially if things continue moving the WebAssembly direction).

Even if you're using Python's SciPy today, you're calling into LAPACK written into Fortran.