Rust doesnt have objects, but otherwise is very compelling. I still use C++ but I'm also looking forward to the day (soon) where I can use Rust instead for many

Rust doesnt have objects, but otherwise is very compelling. I still use C++ but I'm also looking forward to the day (soon) where I can use Rust instead for many projects. With more languages coming to LLVM I expect there will be other solutions as well. C++ took years until it got a ranged for loop. It was so important you had frameworks like Qt providing their own preprocessor to support this functionality. C++ is a language that has a lot of baggage to be backwards compatible and incorporates multiple turing complete languages. When was the last time functionality was removed from C++ to support a better design? Why the hell do we still have header files with raw includes? That's about as sophisticated as copy and paste. The macro preprocessor is stuck in the 70s, probably because the C++ grammar is so hard to parse to write something better. Most template metaprogramming outside of generics is garbage that could be replaced with a better preprocessor and usually the result of premature optimization or avoiding deficiencies in the language and creates custom ad-hoc knowledge that isn't easily transferred to other programmers. Rust has a better preprocessor, cleaner design, no includes, and generics without template metaprogramming. I shouldn't have to mention it but it has things that most modern languages do like ranged for loops, flexible switch/match statements, clojures, and automatic type inference. It doesnt have virtual methods, template metaprogramming, or exception handling. If you're curious, I'd recommend flipping through the syntax guide, there are a lot of well designed concepts: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/syntax-and-semantics.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/syntax-and-semantics.html