I don't come from a even vaguely C or C++ background, but have been studying Rust for some time; most development work that I do is executed in very high level

I don't come from a even vaguely C or C++ background, but have been studying Rust for some time; most development work that I do is executed in very high level languages. I know generally the concepts that exist in C & C++ and absolutely no idea how and why you'd use them as opposed to other tools (OK... an overstatement, but you get the idea). Much of this is because I've not tried to write any C/C++ and only even read it when I need to generally know what some feature of an application does. This article actually helped me understand C/C++ a little bit better than I did before. For example where it explained the differences between Rust and C/C++ copy vs move behavior... I got a better sense of just how C/C++ works and why I might chose to write, say, a function parameter one way vs. another. So in this basic sense, mission accomplished I think. I have no doubt there's lots of nuance missing, but still... not bad and I appreciate the effort.