I'm surprised that Rust is ahead of C++ in their ranking, and by quite a bit. I tend to use C++ as "C with STL and smart pointers" basically (a-la Google), I do

I'm surprised that Rust is ahead of C++ in their ranking, and by quite a bit. I tend to use C++ as "C with STL and smart pointers" basically (a-la Google), I don't see why it'd be any slower or less energy efficient than C.