I think Go and Swift are natural languages to compare Rust to in this respect. Both of them seem to be doing a much better job of reference-level documentation.

I think Go and Swift are natural languages to compare Rust to in this respect. Both of them seem to be doing a much better job of reference-level documentation. In other circumstances the Rust people generally aim for higher standards than "no worse than C or C++", let alone "no worse than C or C++ in the 1980s". (I mean, you don't see Rust people saying "It took 30 years for C++ to get any form of type inference, so as long as we have something by 2040 we'll be on track.)