> fairly straight forward This is a rosy-eyed view of C++ if I ever saw one. C++ has a lot of accidental complexity from layers and layers of features and back

> fairly straight forward This is a rosy-eyed view of C++ if I ever saw one. C++ has a lot of accidental complexity from layers and layers of features and backwards compatibility concerns: maybe some of the features are "straight forward" in isolation, but its interactions with the rest of the language rarely are. C++ is deceptive, in that the compiler barely keeps track of anything for the programmer, so there are many cases when code should have "random symbols" (or something equivalent) added, but isn't, just being broken instead. The Rust compiler front-loads this: trying to turn runtime brokenness into compile-time errors, which does make it annoying to get code that runs, but it makes it less annoying to get code that actually works correctly.