Maybe I was doing C++ wrong all those years, but I find the cognitive load for Rust about equivalent. The error handling idioms of Rust exist, more or less, in

Maybe I was doing C++ wrong all those years, but I find the cognitive load for Rust about equivalent. The error handling idioms of Rust exist, more or less, in well-composed "--no-exceptions" C++ code. The syntax might be a tad different, but the principles are more or less the same.