I don't know a whole lot about C++, but I've worked on projects using C. Seems to me Rust is straightforward and just enforces what you have to do in your mind

I don't know a whole lot about C++, but I've worked on projects using C. Seems to me Rust is straightforward and just enforces what you have to do in your mind otherwise. Once IDEs start coming around it should be quite competitive. I'll admit to thinking the same thing: I'll use Rust for the absolute critical parts, then F# for the rest. But more and more parts I'm writing are easy enough to do in Rust, and I get the perf as a bonus.