I am/was a embedded dev, been using C/C++ since ... more than 15 years. I do C++/Go at $dayjob and I'm in love with Rust. I've written quite a bit of comments

I am/was a embedded dev, been using C/C++ since ... more than 15 years. I do C++/Go at $dayjob and I'm in love with Rust. I've written quite a bit of comments before on Rust, since it's not the first time someone asks similar question. You can read my past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dpc_pw https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dpc_pw Just to sum up, IMO: Rust blows C++ out of the water on almost everything. It's not established enough so there are almost no jobs, and there's a learning curve, lack of tools, slow compilation, business reasons, etc. so you can't just blindly use Rust over C++, but when you can and have time to learn: go for it. The existing tooling is amazing, community is awesome, you will learn really interesting stuff, save time on debugging. As for C++17 features... I don't really care anymore. C++ is death by thousands little cuts (undefined behavior is my "favorite") it's not going to change much anyway.