I strongly disagree. Though it is possible to fudge through working Rust code without understanding the principles that govern Rust, which is probably more than

I strongly disagree. Though it is possible to fudge through working Rust code without understanding the principles that govern Rust, which is probably more than you can say for C++, not understanding these things is going to make life a lot harder when you do run up against them. An example: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5iwyt9/how_to_accomplish_this_without_the_compiler/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5iwyt9/how_to_accompl... You might not need to know what "vtable" means, but the differences between, for example, `T: Fn()` and `T = Fn()` are pretty important.