I don't disagree - my statement was also directed to people new to this field. The overhead for existing C++ teams is learning the language, and (potentially A

I don't disagree - my statement was also directed to people new to this field. The overhead for existing C++ teams is learning the language, and (potentially AFAIK) interfacing with C++ code that has no good C style API. But Rust seems to tackle even the latter quite well. I don't think you'll get around the learning curve for a new language.