I totally agree, simply because all tools have learning curves. It is one thing to learn a language, but it is another entirely to learn a language + debugger +

I totally agree, simply because all tools have learning curves. It is one thing to learn a language, but it is another entirely to learn a language + debugger + profiler + static analyzer + IDE + build system + package manager + test framework + test runner, etc.. (Just typing this is giving me Node/javascript anxiety...) Rust has done an amazing job packing almost all of that into rustc + cargo, and while there is a learning curve it is nothing like the learning curve necessary to produce code of similar quality in C/C++.