I believe the only thing that can be said with certainty about Rust when compared to C++ is that it's safer. Simplicity in the sense of easy to understand is a

I believe the only thing that can be said with certainty about Rust when compared to C++ is that it's safer. Simplicity in the sense of easy to understand is an adjective I would apply to languages such as golang, Swift or even Java. C++ and Rust are complicated languages, because they allow low-level control of the implementation and they insist on the programmer thinking deeply about resource management. Elegance is likewise a property I would not associate with Rust: resource management is clumsy and leaks into the syntax everywhere, it ends up defining how the language looks like.