Anyone who's actually used Rust, C++, Scala, and Java knows that Rust and Scala involve considerably less suffering than their counterparts. The "adopted featu

Anyone who's actually used Rust, C++, Scala, and Java knows that Rust and Scala involve considerably less suffering than their counterparts. The "adopted features" don't change the fundamental problems. Java 8 lambdas are fundamentally broken due to checked exceptions, and the likelihood that checked exceptions are going to be removed from the language is essentially nil. Likewise, Rust error messages are already better than C++ compiler error messages, and the nature of C++ template expansion makes that unlikely to change. Learn what you want to learn... not what large companies have decided to adopt (or not) based on a number of factors that have nothing to do with the quality of the language or its educational value.