Rust Developer Vs C++ Legacy To Rewrite

The Rust developer sits on top, hands clasped in prayer, absolutely terrified of what lies beneath. Meanwhile, the C++ legacy codebase is just chilling on the bottom bunk, completely unbothered, living its best life like the ancient eldritch horror it truly is. The absolute DREAD of being tasked to rewrite decades of C++ spaghetti into Rust is captured perfectly here. Sure, Rust promises memory safety and fearless concurrency, but have you SEEN what lurks in those old C++ codebases? Macros nested seven layers deep, manual memory management that defies the laws of physics, and comments from 1997 that just say "TODO: fix this later." The Rust dev knows they're about to spend the next six months deciphering what `void* ptr = (void*)((int)ptr + 0x42);` actually does while the borrow checker screams at them for crimes they didn't even commit. Sweet dreams are made of unsafe blocks, apparently.