If you don't need the performance characteristics or OS-level interaction offered by systems languages, then please use an interpreted language. Please please please please please. But there aren't a lot of new projects started in C or C++ that fit this, since people have known for decades that using something else will be better if you don't need the specific features offered by systems languages.
> The wider context of this discussion at all is that whether memory-unsafe languages (ie., C/C++) must be made illegal with the implicit suggestion that Rust must be pushed as the alternative.
I never said this and it would be wildly ridiculous for me to suggest this. I mention Rust elsewhere to describe poorly written legislation, not to say that legislation must demand that everybody bow down at the feat of the Rust community and donate their first born child to the borrow checker.
You are reading way too much into my post.
I think you've misunderstood why I mentioned Verona and Vale though. It is to challenge the notion that there could not be any other language than Rust that could be more ergonomic but with slightly different trade-offs. Moreover, I agree with your point regarding the ecosystem.
