I'll give you an alternate perspective. I've never touched C or C++ seriously, I code mostly in javascript, php and I have a passion for functional languages li

I'll give you an alternate perspective. I've never touched C or C++ seriously, I code mostly in javascript, php and I have a passion for functional languages like haskell and elm. I've been following rust for a while and there's no way I couldve written multiple thread safe, concurrent programs, some with message passing between threads in C or C++. The code I would've produced in those languages would have been terribly full of bugs and unsafe, and yet in rust the compiler finds those errors for me and I was able to do it. I think my knowledge of haskell helped immensely in learning rust though, since many concepts appear to be lifted from haskell. the records system is similar, the Option type is similar to the Maybe monad, Result is similar to Either. they both have algebraic data types, there are type aliases, there is a way to declare newtypes with unit structs, traits are similar to typeclasses, etc.