Honestly, coming to Rust from C/C++ is/was a breath of fresh air. I work mostly in C++ for my day job, and with Rust I spend so much less time thinking about th

Honestly, coming to Rust from C/C++ is/was a breath of fresh air. I work mostly in C++ for my day job, and with Rust I spend so much less time thinking about the implementation because the compiler will check for me. With C++ I'm always scratching my head about whether I've remembered to make all the constructors properly, whether I'm initializing this variable properly, whether I'm invoking the STL correctly to get a shared_pointer or something. Whether this piece of STL is compatible with some other piece of C++. This list goes on and on. With Rust, the compiler will tell me when I forget things, through the strong type system and borrow checker. It is insane the number of times the code works once it compiles. With Rust, after getting over the hump with lifetimes, I spend so much less time thinking about syntax and language specifics, and so much more time thinking about the business logic of the problem. The language acts like a great belay system to keep me much safer.