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Congratulations, you've illustrated the difference between syntax and semantics. But any competent compiler also handles semantics (just in a separate phase of compilation), because that's necessary for any useful conversion to machine code, not to mention optimizations.
This is something that Rust is specifically designed to prevent.
C/C++ is mildly obsolete now, basically. Breaking the memory model is not really a small defect that's a matter of taste.
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Yeah, I know, that all just a humour. I almost always use C++, inspite of knowing rust (cz no jun vacncies for rust, but still). There is no modern language which is absolutely better than other one — compromises are everywhere, that's why it's a silly topic to argue about.
There are C++ analyzers like this which are also designed to prevent it (if you have no choice between languages).
I've seen things like this posted several times on here. It always turns out it doesn't actually catch all the possible problems, or it's garbage collected, or it's non-usable for real code.
If it was that easy, the people who wrote Rust with all it's complexity and divergence from the norm were idiots, and I really don't think they were.
Man, fraggles really do love radish though.